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  • 2 - How to Deal with the Long Tradition of Going Ternary?

  • Henk J. Verkuyl
  • Book:
    The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect
    Published online:
    08 October 2021
    Print publication:
    14 October 2021, pp 12-47

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 corrects the tendency to let any serious theory of tense start in 1947 with the publication of Reichenbach (1947). It is absolutely necessary to connect the current theory of tense with classical grammar in order to take into account the aorist or its current descendants. This leads to a discussion of different ternarily organized tense systems as part of a closer inspection of notions like point, interval, fleeting ??, landmark, etc. This prepares the way for showing which sort of role they have in a binary approach. The chapter also gives a sketch of the so-called present perfect puzzle preparing for a solution in Chapter 6.

  • 1 - Introductory Chapter

  • Henk J. Verkuyl
  • Book:
    The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect
    Published online:
    08 October 2021
    Print publication:
    14 October 2021, pp 1-11

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 identifies three lines of research that stand in the way of compositionality and sketches the Babylonian confusion of terms that are in use for dealing with tense and aspect. In this way, it prepares for a central theme: how to deal with the persistent unclarity about the opposition between perfect(-ive) vs imperfect(-ive). A strict compositional approach aims at unravelling this tangle.