Renate Bartsch 
Situations, Tense, and Aspect [PDF ebook] 
Dynamic Discourse Ontology and the Semantic Flexibility of Temporal System in German and English

Frontmatter – Introduction – Part I. Discourse Ontology – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 1. Events as intensional entities – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 2. The delineation of basic situations and constellations – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 3. Denoting, specifying, and restricting basic situations – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 4. Identity of situations across information growth and difference – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 5. Flexibility in choice of identity conditions – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 6. Expressions of identity conditions – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 7. Entities of types (i, e) and (i, s): roles and institutions – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 8. Discussion about alternative ontologies – Chapter 1. The Identity of Basic Situations in Discourse. 9. Conclusion – Part II. The Temporal Order: Tense and Aspect in Discourse – Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 1. The model of regions and situations – Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 2. An overview of Tenses and Aspects – Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 3. Speech time, perspective time, reference time, event time – Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 4. Commentaries and discussion on the Tense-Aspect system – Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 5. Simplifications and reductions from situations to times – Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 6. Temporal hypotactic and paratactic constructions – Chapter 2. The Interaction of Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart. 7. Conclusion – Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 1. Scope phenomena – Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 2. Flexible Grammars for handling scopes – Chapter 3. Scope-interaction of Tense, Aspect and Nominal Terms. 3. Conclusion – Chapter 4. Summary and Conclusion – Notes – References – Index