Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
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| Titre | ANNULÉ |
| Conférencier | Hamida Demirdache |
| Date | lundi 11 juin 2018 changement de jour |
| Heure | 12h15 |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) |
| Description | Constraints on embedded time reference in tenseless vs. tensed languages: Mandarin vs. English We investigate constraints on the time reference of embedded clauses in Mandarin, a language with no overt grammatical tense, systematically comparing these constraints to those that hold of the time reference of embedded clauses in English, a language with overt grammatical tense. We show that: (i) while both complement and relative clauses with bare/aspectually unmarked eventive predicates in Mandarin yield temporal free readings even in intensional contexts (ii) both complement and relative clauses with overt perfect(ive) aspectual marking do not allow so called later then the matrix readings in intensional contexts, as is also the case for complement and relative clauses in languages with overt (past) tense, such as English. (ii), but not (i), validates the Upper Limit Constraint (Abusch 1994) according to which the tense of the embedding clause is an upper bound on the tense of an embedded clause. What is the source and the implications of this contrast? We argue that the source of this contrast does not lie in the absence of grammatical Tense – Mandarin is not Tenseless, it has a silent Non-Future Tense restricting the reference time of bare sentences to Non-Future times (as proposed in Sun 2014)– but rather in the lack of grammatical (overt) Aspect.We moreover provide novel evidence for Non-Future tense from embedded contexts. Joint work with Hongyuan Sun (Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, CERCLL EA 4283) |
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