Aspect in Ancient Greek - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

3.2 The perfective-imperfective distinction 37(i ′ ) If a sentence describes an event, the time of the event is included inthe location time; the time of a state includes the location time.(ii ′ )(iii ′ )Some salient location time serves as reference point for the currentsentence.The location time of events succeeds the reference point; with statesit includes the reference point.This revised version gives the correct results for our French discourses (40)and (41), just as the earlier version did. Constructing the context DRS (representingthe first sentence) and the preliminary DRSs (representing the secondsentences) according to the revised rules and then merging them gives the leftDRSs in (54) and (55): 11n e 1 t 1 t 2 e 2 t 3 t 4(54)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 4 )ρ :=≺t 5 := t 2⇒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 2 ≺ t 4n e 1 t 1 t 2 s 1 t 3 t 4(55)p 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 4 )ρ :=⊆t 5 := t 2⇒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 2 ⊆ t 411 Kamp, van Genabith, and Reyle (2005) may prefer to include a progressive operator in(55), to avoid the problem of the imperfective paradox. I postpone the discussion of thisproblem to the next section.