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  • 6 - Binary Tense Structure and Adverbial Modification

  • Henk J. Verkuyl
  • Book:
    The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect
    Published online:
    08 October 2021
    Print publication:
    14 October 2021, pp 169-210

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 aims at accounting for modification by temporal adverbials. The binary approach allows them to operate on different levels of tense structure above S_0. Crucial is the new insight that the relation between modifier A and modified B is not to be expressed as location of A in B but rather as the intersection of A and B. This insight and the flexibility of (deictic) adverbial modification offers the possibility of presenting a structural solution to the Present Perfect puzzle. It also sheds light on the nature of the in/for-test: it explains why terminative sentences with a for-adverbial introduced at a higher level may be regarded as well-formed as opposed to those which require a token interpretation.