Chronoscopes
Alice G. Β. ter Meulen · 2000
Abstract Some essential semantic properties of our use of tense and aspect in ordinary English discourse have been accounted for in Discourse Representation Theory (DRT; Kamp and Reyle 1993), formalising how aspectual properties control the reference to events and states with a classical notion of logical entailment. Further properties of our ordinary reasoning about temporal dependencies may arise in the interpretation of discourse. The richer representational tools of Dynamic Aspect Trees (DAT; ter Meulen 1995) captures other aspects of temporal rea-soning in natural language with a situated, nonmonotonic notion of inference in chronoscopes.