Aspect in Ancient Greek - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

3.2 The perfective-imperfective distinction 35(50) (46) ⊕ (48) =n e 1 t 1 t 2 s 1 t 3 t 4p enter(e 1 )τ(e 1 ) = t 1t 1 ⊆ t 2t 2 ≺ nm phone(s 1 )τ(s 1 ) = t 3t 3 ○t 4t 4 ≺ nt 5ρ(t 5 ,t 3 )In the second stage anaphoric elements are resolved. t 5 has to be identifiedwith a previously established time and ρ has to be specified. In both resolutionsthe difference between states and events plays a role. Kamp and Reyle(1993:544-545) formulate the following rules:(ii)(iii)In a past time narrative, the time of the last mentioned event serves asreference point for the current sentence; times of states do not serve asreference point.Events succeed the reference point; states include the reference point.Following (ii), t 5 binds to t 1 in both (49) and (50), since t 1 is the time ofthe last (and only) mentioned event. The specification of ρ, however, differsbetween the two DRSs. Following (iii), ρ is specified as ≺ in (49) (since wehave to do with an event e 2 ) and to ⊆ in (50) (since we have to do with a states 1 ):n e 1 t 1 t 2 e 2 t 3 t 4(51)p enter(e 1 )τ(e 1 ) = t 1t 1 ⊆ t 2t 2 ≺ nm phone(e 2 )τ(e 2 ) = t 3t 3 ⊆ t 4t 4 ≺ nt 5ρ(t 5 ,t 3 )ρ :=≺t 5 := t 1⇒n e 1 t 1 t 2 e 2 t 3 t 4p enter(e 1 )τ(e 1 ) = t 1t 1 ⊆ t 2t 2 ≺ nm phone(e 2 )τ(e 2 ) = t 3t 3 ⊆ t 4t 4 ≺ nt 1 ≺ t 3