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JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF THE SEMANTICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE MANAGING EDITOR: EDITORIAL BOARD:

Peter Bosch Simon C. Garrod Leo G.M. Noordman Pieter A.M. Seuren

REVIEW EDITOR:

Rob A. van der Sandt

ASSISTANT EDITOR:

Bart Geurts

CONSULTING EDITORS:

W. Levelt (Max Planck Inst. Nijmegen),

J. Allwood (Univ. Gteborg),

J. Lyons (Trinity Hall, Cambridge),

R. Bartsch (Amsterdam Univ.),

W. Marslen-Wilson (Max Planck lnst. Nijmegen),

J. van Benthem (Groningen Univ.), H.E. Brekle (Univ. Regensburg),

J. McCawley (Univ. Chicago),

G. Brown (Univ. of Ess�x),

B. Richards (Edinburgh Univ.),

H.H. Oark (Stanford Univ.),

R. Rommetveit (Oslo Univ.),

H.-J. Eikmeyer (Univ. Bielefeld),

H. Schnelle (Ruhr Univ. Bochum),

G. Fauconnier (Univ. de Vincennes),

J. Searle (Univ. Cal. Berkeley),

P. Gochet (Univ. de Liege),

A. von Stechow (Univ. Konstanz),

J. Hintikka (Florida State Univ.),

M. Steedman (Edinburgh Univ.),

St. Isard (Sussex Univ.),

G. Sundholm (Nijmegen Univ.),

D. Israel (SRI, Stanford)

Ch. Travis (Tilburg Univ.),

P.N. Johnson-Laird (MRC Appl. Psych.

B. van Fraassen (Princeton Univ.),

Z. Vendler (UCSD),

Unit, ,Cambridge), E. Keenan (UCLA),

Y. Wilks (New Mexico State Univ.),

S. Kuno (Harvard Univ.),

D. Wilson (UCL).

EDITORIAL ADDRESS: Journal of Semantics, P.O. Box 1454, 6501 BL Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Published by Faris Publications,

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JOURNAL OF

SEMANTICS VOLUME 4

(1985)

FORIS PUBLICATIONS Dordrecht

JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF THE SEMANTICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE MANAGING EDITOR:

Peter Bosch

EDITORIAL BOARD:

S1mon C. Garrod Leo G.M. Noordman Pieter A.M. Seuren

REVIEW EDITOR:

Rob A. van der Sandt

ASSISTANT EDITOR:

Bart Geurts W. Levelt (Max P lanck Inst. Nijmegen},

CONSULTING EDITORS: J. Allwood (Univ. Goteborg),

J. Lyons (Trinity Hall, Cambridge),

R. Bartsch (Amsterdam Univ.),

W. Marslen-Wilson (Max Planck Inst.

J. van Benthem (Groningen Un1v.),

NiJmegen), J. McCawley (Univ. Chicago},

H.E. Brekle (Univ. Regensburg}, G. Brown (Univ. of Essex),

B. Richards (Edinburgh Univ.},

H.H. Oark (Stanford Univ.},

R. Rommetveit (Oslo Univ.),

H.-J. Eikmeyer (Univ. Bielefeld},

H. Schnelle (Ruhr Univ. Bochum},

G. Fauconnier (Univ. de Vmcennes),

J. Searle (Univ. Cal. Berkeley},

P. Gochet (Univ. de Liege),

A. von Stechow (Univ. Konstanz),

J. Hintikka (Flor!da State Univ.),

M. Steedman (Edinburgh Univ.),

St. Isard (Sussex Univ.),

G. Sundholm (Nijmegen Univ.),

D. Israel (SRI, Stanford)

Ch. Travis (Tilburg Univ.),

P.N. Johnson-Laird (MRC Appl. Psych.

B. van Fraassen (Princeton Univ.},

Unit, Cambridge},

Z. Vendler (UCSD},

E. Keenan (UCLA},

Y. Wilks (New Mexico State Univ.},

S. Kuno (Harvard Univ.),

D. Wilson (UCL).

EDITORIAL ADDRESS: Journal of Semantics, P.O. Box I454, 650I BL Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Published by Foris Publications, P.O. Box 509. 3300 AM Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Cl N.I.S. Foundation ISSN 0167-5133

Printed in the Netherlands by ICG Printing

JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS CONTENTS VOLUME 4 ( 1 985)

A rticles FRITS BEUKEMA, Chronological Relations and Free Adjuncts in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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D.S. BREE, The Durative Temporal Subordinating Conjunctions Since and Until . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID M . CARTER, Common Sense Inference in a Focus-guided Anaphor Resolver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BERNARD COMRIE, Reflections on Subject and Object Control

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CHRISTA HA UENSCHILD, Definite vs. I ndefinite I n terpretation of Russian Noun Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

37 1

H.J. HERINGER, The Verb and its Semantic Power: Association as a Basis for Valence Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

79

H.J. VAN JAARSVELD and R. SCHREUDER, Implicit Quantification of Temporal Adverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

327

SEBASTIAN LOB NER, Definites

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279

ILKKA NIINI LUOTO, Imagination and fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

209

BOELE DE RAAD, The Language of Social Acts

223

BART GEURTS, Generics

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GUNTHER ROHDENBURG, Dogs, Bitches and other Creatures

1 17

LI LIANE TASMOWSKI and S. PAUL VERLUYTEN, Control Mechanisms of Anaphora

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JAN DE VUYST, The present Perfect in Dutch and English

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THOMAS Postulates

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ZIMMERMAN,

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on

Transparency

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Review A rticle ARNIM VON STECHOW: Max J . Cresswell, Structured Meanings. The Semantics of Propositional A ttitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Book Notes AD FOOLEN: Gunter Saile, Sprache und Handlung

391

ULF FRIEDRICHSDORF and PETER S CHROEDER-HEISTER: G.E. Hughes and M.J. Cresswell , A Companion to Modal Logic . . .

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B ook Reviews JAN LEMMENS: Jaakko H intikka (in collaboration with Jack Kulas), The Game ofLanguage. Studies in Game-Theoretical Semantics and its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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PETER ROLF LUTZEIER: Fred Landman and Frans Veltman (eds.), Varieties of Formal Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

193

D . E. OVER: Robert Stalnaker, Inquiry

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THOMAS PECHMANN: J. Engelkamp and H.D. Zimmer, Dynamic A spects of Language Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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WALTER J . PERRIG and H UBERT D . ZIMMER: A.J. Sanford and S.C. Garrod, Understanding Written Language: Comprehension Beyond the Sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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HAN R EICHGELT: T. van Dij k and W. Kintsch, Strategies of 275 Discourse Comprehension

D iscussion H. ECKERT: Valences LTD vs. Valences Associated, Comments o n Heringer's Association Experiment as a Basis for Valence Theory . H .J. HE RINGER, The Verb and its Semantic Power: Association as a

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Obituary

EDITOR'S NOTE

The editors wish to express their gratitude to the following colleagues who are not consulting editors of this Journal but have been kind enough during the past year to referee papers that were submitted for publication : D . S . Bree C. Gussenhoven G.L. M . van H ec k L . Hom R . Kempson A.A. McDonald R . van Oirsouw F. Plank G. Redeker H. van Riemsdij k B. Rigter C.-R. Rollinger A. Sanford A.J. Smolenaars W. Spooren L. Stassen P. Staudacher K. Stenning L. Wetzels D. Wunderlich The editors also want to thank Michael Arbib, F rank Heny, H an nes Rieser, and Robert Stalnaker for the support they gave to the Journal in their function as consulting editors during the period 1 982- 1 98 5 .

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