Tense, Reference, and Worldmaking

by James A. McGilvray

Using Reichenbach's (1947) theory of tenses and temporal structures as a point of departure, McGilvray modifies it to produce a theory of his own. Analysing the difficulties Reichenbach's theory has in explaining the relationship of a speaker to a world, he introduces a new model for this relationship based on the three-interval temporal topology that Reichenbachian theory assigns to the sentences of natural languages. McGilvray explains and defends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773508716
• ISBN13: 9780773508712
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 392 Pages