Title:

Before and until. Experimental Study of two temporal operators

Creator:

Winkowski, Jan

Publisher:

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2019

Subject and Keywords:

semantics ; pragmatics ; experimental study ; temporal operators ; before ; until

Abstract:

The article concerns monotonicity properties of two temporal operators, namely before and until. Every natural language operator can be either monotone increasing, monotone decreasing or non-monotone. Usually, the first two mean that it preserves or reverses the direction of entailment. However monotonicity does not have to be defined in terms of entailment. In the paper three types of monotonicity are defined: with respect to temporal precedence, to the relation of being a sub-event, and to entailment. In this framework different definitions for before and until are proposed. Using these definitions I state exact empirical predictions, which are then tested in an empirical study

Relation:

Polonica

Volume:

XXXIX (39)

Start page:

5

End page:

27

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

10.17651/POLON.39.1

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Access:

Open