@TECHREPORT{AICPub518:1988, AUTHOR={Dalrymple, Mary}, TITLE={Tense, Aspect, and The Interpretation Of Tenseless Elements In English}, ADDRESS={333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025}, INSTITUTION={AI Center, SRI International}, MONTH={Nov}, NUMBER={453}, YEAR={1988}, KEYWORDS={Natural Language Understanding!Tense and Aspect}, ABSTRACT={An analysis of English tense and aspect is presented that specifies temporal precedence relations with a sentence. The relevant reference points for interpretation are taken to be the initial and terminal points of events in the world, as well as two hypothetical times: the perfect time (when a sentence contains perfect aspect) and the progressive or during time. We also describe a method for providing temporal interpretation for nontensed elements such as nouns and adjectives, whose interpretation may be temporally dependent.} }
