What is a Tense, Anyway?

Fabrizio Cariani, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Michael Glanzberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Abstract: We study three different conceptions of tense emerging from semantics, syntax and morphology, respectively. We investigate how they bear on the question of the relationship between tense and modality as they emerge in Cariani’s The Modal Future (2021).

Keywords: Tense; modals; selection; semantics; syntax.