Tense, Predicates, and Lifetime Effects

摘要: In this paper, I explain in which way the temporal location of individuals is determined by interpretation a clause. The most drastic effects show up past tense individual-level clauses (section 1). argue section 2 that predicates provide lexically minimal requirements on their arguments' lifetimes. role for lifetime an indirect one: virtue its determining main predicate clause, it triggers implicatures cause effects. This proposal refined 3 so as to be able blocking certain contexts. due choice topics and values restrictions. 4 compare my Kratzer (1989b) account more adequate. Kratzer's claim, sometimes directly tense, runs into several problems are avoided account.