{"product_id":"9780792338017","title":"Tense, Attitudes, and Scope","description":"Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry  into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the  view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to  structurally higher expressions (the `relative tense theory') and  argues against the view that tenses are all indexicals. This idea is  formally encoded as a de se analysis of attitudes, originally  proposed by Lewis, coupled with a sequence-of-tense rule posited for  English. An auxiliary proposal is made to account for some exceptional  cases (e.g. so-called double-access sentences), which invokes de  re attitudes about temporal entities (states or intervals). Since  the proposed account assumes that the interpretation of tense is  structure-dependent, it also correctly predicts scope interactions  between tenses and NPs.   Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is intended for scholars and  graduate students in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface,  philosophy of language and Japanese linguistics.","brand":"T. Ogihara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45857605484862,"sku":"9780792338017","price":3037.01,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780792338017_58842681-5bab-4f60-be43-012673af64a6.jpg?v=1707326837","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780792338017","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}