LINGUIST 3II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Present Tense, Nonpast Tense, Pluperfect
27 Nov 2018
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Assumption with time: world contains events: time is a relation between events. From a semantic point of view: past and non-past: we can use features. Future can combine with both present and past. How do we know that would is the past tense of will: tense shifting. Lisa said, i am happy. > last week, lisa said that she was happy. Lisa said i will be happy when this exam is over > last week, lisa said that she would be happy when the exam was over. Would is the past tense of will. Maybe: will is present tense but indicates future tense. Kim _____ (will, could, should, must, may, can, might) walk to school. Future (will/would) is a modal in english: not a semantic tense, about modality. Modality determines whether the truth conditions should be evaluated extensionally or intensionally: extensionally: locally, actual world, intensionally: with respect to a possible world. Proposition is true in one world or another.
