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The papers in this volume were ?rstpresented at the International Round Table Time and Modality held in Paris in December of 2005 and organized by the Jeune ‘ Equipe B 368 Syntaxe anglaise et syntaxe comparative (Universite ’ Paris3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) and by the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (Centre National dela Recherche Scienti?que (CNRS) and UniversiteP ‘ aris 7). We wish to thank the institutions that provided ?nancial support for the Round Table: the CNRS, the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle,the Conseil Sci- ti?que(Universite ’s Paris3 and Paris 7) and the Bureaudes Relations Internationales (UniversiteP ’ aris3). vii Contents Preface …vii Contributors …xv Introduction …1 1Tense …2 2Aspect …3 2. 1 Perfectand Perfectivity …3 2. 2 Eventuality Type …4 3 Modals and Modal Verbs …5 3. 1 Subject/Speaker Orientation …5 3. 2 The Temporal Location of Modal Verbs …6 3. 3 The Temporal/Causal Function of Modal Verbs …7 3. 4 The Temporal Syntax of Non-Root Modals …8 3. 5 Weak Necessity Modals …9 4 The Role of Past Morphology in Modal Contexts …9 5 The Subjunctive …10 6 Genericity …11 7Copular Clauses …11 8Conclusions and Open Problems…1 2 References …14 Patterns in the Semantics of Generic Sentences …17 Greg Carlson 1 The Setting …17 2TheIssues …18 3 Induction and Stipulation …22 3. 1 Rules and Induction …22 3. 2 What do Generic Sentencesdo? …23 3. 3 Inductive Generalizations Again …24 ix x Contents 4 Patterns …25 4. 1 Patterns and Non-Patterns …25 4. 2 Generic Sentences …27 4. 3 Restriction …
