This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts.
The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb …

This paper examines a little studied type of perspective shift that I call protagonist projection
(PP), following Holton (J Pragmat 28 (5): 625–628, 1997).(Other names for what is arguably …

The traditional view is that now is a pure indexical, denoting the utterance time. Yet, despite
its initial appeal, the view has faced criticism. A range of data reveal now allows for …

This paper investigates how modal readings are affected by temporal interpretation in
natural language sentences, by taking a close look at the Korean swu-construction which …

This paper proposes an approach to narrative deixis which offers a coherent analysis of the
respective roles of proximal and distal deictic expressions (demonstratives as well as …

This paper contributes to a more general understanding of the semantic diversity in temporal
connectives cross-linguistically by investigating in some detail a clitic found in the Australian …

This paper proposes an updated analysis of the uses of now to modify past-tense clauses in
narratives. It is by now well known that indexical expressions such as now are not as rigid as …

This ms. was started as a paper, but then it grew to its current length an even now it isn't
quite finished. What follows are a few words describing the project and its origins and a …

The goal of this chapter is to explore the meaning of now. The upshot of this exploration is a
glimpse of how the meanings of tense and temporal adverbs interact. The chapter begins …

This paper proposes that a core semantic property of temporal locating adverbs is the ability
(or the lack thereof) to introduce a new time discourse referent. The core data comes from …