The Tense System of Polish

Vater, Heinz

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“…Thus, Sharvit (2014) agrees with much previous literature (e.g. Kozlowska-Raś 1987;Vater 1995;Arregui and Kusumoto 1998;Sadowska 2012;Bittner 2014; see Sect. 2.2) that Polish differs from English in that it is a non-SOT language, but this difference is independent of the variation between pronominal and quantificational tense, since in her analysis both English and Polish have pronominal tenses.…”

Section: The Semantics Of Tensesupporting

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“…In this paper we focus on Polish. While, to the best of our knowledge, SOT phenomena in Polish have never been subject to systematic empirical scrutiny, both the descriptive literature on Polish and the theoretical literature on SOT variation consistently classify Polish as a non-SOT language (see, e.g., Kozlowska-Raś 1987;Vater 1995;Arregui and Kusumoto 1998;Kusumoto 1999;Sadowska 2012;Bittner 2014;Sharvit 2014). For instance, Sharvit (2014: 264) argues that Polish behaves like Japanese in that past-marked complement clauses embedded under past-marked attitude verbs can only be interpreted as backward-shifted, as in (12a), and embedded present must be used for a simultaneous interpretation, as in (12b In descriptive works this is sometimes phrased in the style of Jespersen's (1924) original remarks on "tense shifting" in English (e.g.…”

Section: Polish As a Non-sot Languagementioning

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Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish

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Renans

Romoli

2022

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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In English, past tense stative clauses embedded under a past-marked attitude verb, like Eric thought that Kalina was sick, can receive two interpretations, differing on when the state of the complement is understood to hold, i.e. Kalina’s sickness precedes the time of Eric’s thinking (backward-shifted reading), or Kalina is sick at the time of Eric’s thinking (simultaneous reading). As is well known, the availability of the simultaneous reading—also called Sequence of tense (SOT)—is subject to cross-linguistic variation. Non-SOT languages only allow for the backward-shifted interpretation. This cross-linguistic variation has been analysed in two main ways in the literature: a structural approach, connecting the availability of the simultaneous reading in a language to a syntactic mechanism that allows the embedded past not to be interpreted; and an implicature approach, which links the absence of such a reading to the presence of a “cessation” implicature associated with past tense. We report a series of experiments on Polish, which is commonly classified as a non-SOT language. First, we investigate the interpretation of complement clauses embedded under past-marked attitude verbs in Polish and English. This investigation revealed a difference between these two languages in the availability of simultaneous interpretations for past-under-past complement clauses, albeit not as large as a binary distinction between SOT and non-SOT languages would lead us to expect. We then address the question of whether the lower acceptability we observe for simultaneous readings in Polish might be due to an embedded cessation implicature. On the way to address this question, we show that in simple matrix clauses, Polish gives rise to the same cessation inference as English. Then we investigate Polish past-under-past sentences in positive and negative contexts, comparing their potential cessation implicature to the exclusive implicature of disjunction. In our results, we found that the latter was endorsed more often in positive than in negative contexts, as expected, while the cessation implicature was endorsed overall very little, with no difference across contexts. The disanalogy between the disjunction and the temporal cases, and the insensitivity of the latter to monotonicity, are a challenge for the implicature approach, and cast doubts on associating SOT phenomena with implicatures.

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Section: The Semantics Of Tensesupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Polish As a Non-sot Languagementioning

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Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish

Mucha

Renans

Romoli

2022

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…Koschmieder (1929) utilise des exemples similaires pour défendre l'idée selon laquelle les notions de complétude et d'incomplétude ne permettent pas selon lui de rendre compte de la distinction perfectif vs imperfectif. Sur ce point voir aussiVater (1995).12On pourrait en déduire que les formes imperfectives signifient non pas l'incomplétude, mais seulement l'absence d'indication concernant la complétude. Telle est à peu près la thèse deForsyth (1970).…”

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La résultativité et la valeur de parfait en français et en polonais

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The Tense System of Polish

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Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish

Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish

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