Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include                  a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while time is                  undimensional, events have a complex spatiotemporal structure that reflects their                  human participants. How can an event be flattened to fit into the linear time axis?                  Chomsky's The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, offers a way to address this                  problem. The studies collected in The Syntax of Time investigate whether problems                  concerning the construal of tense and aspect can be reduced to syntactic problems                  for which the basic mechanism and principles of generative grammar already provide                  solutions.These studies, recent work by leading international scholars in the field,                  offer varied perspectives on the syntax of tense and the temporal construal of                  events: models of tense interpretation, construal of verbal forms, temporal aspect                  versus lexical aspect, the relation between the event and its argument structure,                  and the interaction of case with aktionsart or tense construal. Advances in the                  theory of temporal interpretation in the sentence are also applied to the temporal                  interpretation of nominals.

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