Events, States and Times : An Essay on Narrative Discourse in English.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Narrative progression: From discourse connectivity to event partitivity -- 1 Preliminary thoughts: Narrative discourse -- 2 Prominence: A look at 'now' -- 2.1 Challenges to Kamp's principle -- 2.2 Time prominence account of 'now' -- 2.2.1 Coherence and temporal anaphora -- 2.2.2 Beyond the time prominence account of 'now' -- 2.3 'Now' seeks prominent final states -- 2.4 Two consequences of the proposal -- 2.4.1 Is `now' a pure indexical? -- 2.4.2 Times versus states -- 3 Coherence: A look at narration and result -- 3.1 Delimiting the task -- 3.2 narration and result -- 3.2.1 Hobbs1985 on occasion -- 3.2.2 The definition of narration -- 3.2.3 The definition of result -- 3.2.4 A minimal ontology -- 3.2.5 The relationship between narration and result -- 3.3 Abducing structural constraints on EDUs -- 3.3.1 Structural laws -- 3.3.2 Possibilities for EDUs -- Appendices -- A Narrative progression with statives? -- B Derivations -- B.1 Deriving -- B.2 Absurd consequences -- Part II: Semantics and pragmatics of tense: The nuts and bolts -- 4 Cessation and double access -- 4.1 Temporal implicatures and temporal profile of statives -- 4.2 Semantics of tense: First pass -- 4.3 Double access -- 4.3.1 Cessation and parentheticality -- 4.3.2 Two complications -- 4.3.3 Abusch's account of double access Heim-style -- 4.3.4 The meaning of the present tense revisited -- 4.4 Calculating cessation in embedded contexts -- 5 Sequence of tense -- 5.1 Relative present -- 5.2 Simultaneous readings and tense shifting -- 5.3 Alleged simultaneity with the progressive -- 5.4 Final words on tense shifting: Evidence for and against -- 5.5 ULC and beyond -- 6 Concluding thoughts: Ways of composing with viewpoint aspect -- 6.1 Towards a compositional semantics -- 6.2 Viewpoint aspect -- 6.2.1 The neo-Kleinian and Bach/Krifka analyses.

6.2.2 Comparing the two analyses -- Bibliography.

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