Events, States and Times. An essay on narrative discourse in English

• Main Author: Altshuler, Daniel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2016
• Subjects: narrative progression; abduction; discourse coherence; rhetorical relations; states; attitude reports; indexicality; indirect speech; times; anaphora; Events; aspect; sequence of tense; tense; adverbs; deixis
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This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb 'now' and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinct...