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146 Chapter 6. The temporal structure of discourse(179)e 2 t 4a recover(e 2 )τ(e 2 ) ⊆ t 3τ(e 2 ) ⊃≺ t 4t 3t 3 ≺ nThe topic time t 3 is no longer treated as a free variable (as it was in chapter4), but as a true anaphor that has to bind to a previously introduced pasttime. We merge (178) and (179), and following the default rules t 3 binds tot 2 :n e 1 t 1 t 2 e 2 t 4(180)a build temples(e 1 )τ(e 1 ) ⊆ t 1τ(e 1 ) ⊃≺ t 2t 1 ≺ na recover(e 2 )τ(e 2 ) ⊆ t 3τ(e 1 ) ⊃≺ t 4t 3t 3 ≺ nt 3 := t 2⇒n e 1 t 1 t 2 e 2 t 4a build temples(e 1 )τ(e 1 ) ⊆ t 1τ(e 1 ) ⊃≺ t 2t 1 ≺ na recover(e 2 )τ(e 2 ) ⊆ t 2τ(e 1 ) ⊃≺ t 4t 2 ≺ nThe temporal relations are represented graphically in Figure 6.1. The recoverye 2 indeed follows the building of temples e 1 .t 1 = t TT1τ(e 1 )t 2 = t 3 = t TT2τ(e 2 )Figure 6.1: Graphical representation of (180), successionLet’s now move on to an example with imperfective aspect. We have seenthat a sequence of clauses with imperfective aspect often leads to an interpretationof overlap, like in (181) (for the glossed version, see (162)):