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Vortrag: Deriving the Full Frame Effect

The sentence ‘She will never see the Taj Mahal.’ seems to entail not only that the subject will never see the Taj Mahal in the future, but also that she has never seen the Taj Mahal in the past. This is peculiar, since the sentence is clearly marked for the future tense, and should thus be expected only to make claims about future eventualities. Similarly, the past sentence ‘She never saw the Taj Mahal.’ entails that the subject will never see the Taj Mahal after the utterance time, either. This phenomenon, originally observed by my PhD supervisor Daniel Büring, is what we call the Full Frame Effect: Some tenses become semantically vacuous in the scope of universal temporal quantifiers like ‘always’ and ‘never’.
In my talk, I will introduce our analysis of the Full Frame Effect, based on the conception of tense as pronominal and presuppositional (going back to Partee 1973). The effect will be explained as a consequence of the combination of temporal quantifiers and independent properties of presuppositions.

References
Partee, Barbara Hall. 1973. Some structural analogies between tenses and pronouns in English. The Journal of Philosophy 70 (18). 601-609.

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Tag: 14.11.2025
Anfangszeit: 14:00
Dauer: 00:30
Raum: M17.23
Track: Theoretische Linguistik
Sprache: en

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