Abstract A pronominal analysis of tense goes back to Partee (1973), motivated by a series proposed parallels between the interpretation tenses and that pronouns. This article revisits Partee's interpretive parallels, as well two more identified in Kratzer (1998), light subsequent developments work on both temporal relations The goal this is not argue for or against tense, but instead make clear...

Supporters of eliminative connectionism have argued for a pattern association-based explanation of language learning and language processing. They deny that explicit rules and symbolic representations play any role in language processing and cognition in general. Their argument is based to a large extent on two artificial neural network (ANN) models that are claimed to be able to learn the past...

The topic of the paper is the introduction of a formalism that permits a homogeneous representation of definite temporal adverbials, temporal quantifications (as frequency and duration), temporal conJ~ctions and tenses, and of their combinations with propositions. This unified representation renders it possible to show how these components refer to each other and interact in creati~ temporal me...