This dissertation offers a systematic investigation of the temporal interpretations of root
clauses and complement clauses in Mandarin involving functional projections of tense …

Discourses in the historical (or narrative) use of the simple present in English prohibit
backshifting, though they allow forward sequencing. Unlike both reference time theories and …

Many Western American indigenous languages are tenseless, lacking verbal inflection that
relates the time of an event or state to the utterance time. Northern Paiute, to name one such …

We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their timesequence. A plot is
also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality.“The king died and then the …

Paraguayan Guarani does not overtly mark tense in its inflectional system. Prior accounts of
languages without obligatory morphological tense have posited a phonologically covert …

This paper contributes to the recent development of the research on O-/X-marking (von
Fintel & Iatridou 2023) through providing novel data on so-called Anderson conditionals …

Free indirect discourse (FID) is a kind of speech or thought representation that lacks specific
marking. The entity to whom the speech or thought is attributed (the perspectival center) has …

To thrive in the competitive market, organizations are opting to release their products early,
followed by an ongoing testing process to eliminate any remaining bugs through the delivery …

В статье представлен обзор новейших исследований в области семантики времени, а
конкретно способов представления временнóго измерения значения в языке, а также …

Despite its reputation as an archetypal example of indexicality, the temporal adverb now has
many non-indexical uses. It is not surprising, then, that recent work has instead focused on …