This Thursday, Sabine Iatridou and I are presenting our paper “Since Since” in the “LingLunch”:http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/linglunch/ series here at MIT. We hope to get this paper ready for submission this summer. The handout for the talk is “available”:http://web.mit.edu/fintel/www/rutgers.handout.pdf.
bq. Abstract This paper is about one sentence, its structure, its meaning, and how exactly it comes to mean what it means. The sentence is
“Tony has been happy since he has been taking Prozac”.
To understand the sentence and its compositional semantics, we need to figure out the proper treatment of the perfect, the meaning of “since”, and make some interesting assumptions about the hidden structure of the temporal adjunct clause.
[PS: If you want a real life example or two, do a Google search on a phrase like "since I have been". It won't be hard to find examples like this: "Since I have been taking your kelp pills, I haven't had any trouble with my heels."]
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