Comments on: Pancheva on Another Perfect Puzzle http://semantics-online.org/2004/07/pancheva-on-another-perfect-puzzle A weblog on semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and intersections thereof Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:20:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Tony Marmo http://semantics-online.org/2004/07/pancheva-on-another-perfect-puzzle#comment-126 Tony Marmo Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:35:59 +0000 http://semantics-online.org/2004/07/pancheva-on-another-perfect-puzzle#comment-126 <p>The paper mentioned above is about the fact that some <i>temporal adverbials</i> (or deitics) cannot occur with the perfect tense in English, although it is a possibility in other languages:</p> <p>(1) a. ?? We saw John last night. He had arrived yesterday... b. We saw John this morning. He had arrived yesterday... c. We saw John last night. He had arrived the same day... </p> <p>I took the liberty to put and excerpt from and a <a href="http://tonymarmo.tripod.com/linguistix-logik/index.blog?entry_id=374796" rel="nofollow">link</a> to Pacheva's paper in my blog.</p> The paper mentioned above is about the fact that some temporal adverbials (or deitics) cannot occur with the perfect tense in English, although it is a possibility in other languages:

(1) a. ?? We saw John last night. He had arrived yesterday…
b. We saw John this morning. He had arrived yesterday…
c. We saw John last night. He had arrived the same day…

I took the liberty to put and excerpt from and a link to Pacheva’s paper in my blog.

]]>