Backshift and tense decomposition
- Backshift is a phenomenon affecting verb tense that is visible as a mismatch between some specific embedded contexts and other environments. For instance, the indirect speech equivalent of a sentence like 'Kim likes reading', with a present tense verb, may show the same verb in a past tense form, as in 'Sandy said Kim liked reading'. We present a general analysis of backshift, pooling data from English and Romance languages. Our analysis acknowledges that tense morphology is ambiguous between different temporal meanings, explicitly models the role of the speech time and the event times involved and takes the aspectual constraints of tenses into consideration.
| Author: | Francisco Costa, António BrancoORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-716110 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2012.6 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2012/10/15 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (19 : 2012 : Daejeon) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/06 |
| GND Keyword: | Romanische Sprachen; Tempus; Indirekte Rede |
| Volume: | 19.2012 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 86 |
| Last Page: | 106 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
