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Introduction

At first sight the topic of this paper, Temporality in Noun Phrases, seems to be an

odd one as the two main components, temporality and noun phrases, don’t reveal

an obvious connection. On the contrary, according to Jucker (1993: 7),

The English noun phrase has always been treated as the lesser brother of

the verb phrase. It seems to be less problematic, simpler, and more straight-

forward than the verb phrase, which consequently is taken to offer more

exciting and more rewarding research questions.

A similar, rather one-dimensional, attitude can be found with respect to the notion

of temporality. Although many authors introduce the topic of temporal interpre-

tations, they focus primarily on verbs or whole sentences, as already shown in the

titels of their books, like Rennat Declerck. 1997. When-Clauses and Temporal

Structure. London: Routledge.

At this point one could think that my chosen topic is ill-fated: noun phrases aren’t

considered to be attractive enough and the feature of temporality is reserved for

verbs and sentences. However, in an abstract way this paper can be seen as a

counterargument for this attitude because it is my aim to show that a temporal interpretation

isn’t reduced to the domain of verbal predicates alone, but it can be

also assigned to noun phrases.

With this simplified view in mind, I will start approaching the topic by taking a

look at traditional concepts of tense. Intuitively many people will state that iden-

tifying a temporal setting is a verbal prerogative. Accordingly, sentences like for

example

(i) John plays soccer and

(ii) John played soccer

reveal their temporal location via the overt tense reflexes, -s and -ed. By applying

them to the verb (to play), we receive the interpretations that the activity (to play

soccer), carried out by the agent (John), took place either in the present (shown in

the first example) or in the past (shown in the second example). At first sight,

there seems to be no problem with regard to such an account, especially as this is

also the normal way children learn a grammar in school. However, by taking a

closer look at the analysis, sooner or later the question has to be raised, why tense

seems to be so closely and exclusively associated with verbs. This rather basic

question is adressed in chapter 2 of this paper.

After that, I leave the verbal domain in order to arrive at the nominal one. The

third chapter can be seen as the theoretical framework, which is important with

respect to the topics that will be addressed later. Thus, it wouldn’t make sense to

talk about a noun’s functional structure, unless one knows that such an assump-

tion is the re-evaluation of former proposals.

Moreover, in the second subchapter I will have a look at verbal properties, which

can be detected in noun phrases. Once again, this account seems to be strange, as

one could surely think of more differences than similarities between verbs and nouns.

Nevertheless, there are languages, like for instance Turkish, where the

feature of voice can be applied not only to verbs, but also to nouns.

Chapter 4 can be seen as half of the “heart” of this thesis, as it focuses explicitly

on the notion of tense within noun phrases. In order to allow a wide insight, I de-

cided to introduce four approaches by Mürvet Enç and one analysis by Renate

Musan. However, this doesn’t mean that I simply summarise the crucial findings

of these models. On the contrary. As it is my main goal to show how nouns can

receive a temporal interpretation, I will stick to those parts of the authors’ views,

which are either very important or raise difficulties. Accordingly, I will also out-

line possible problematic issues or offer my own analysis.

In order to “fix” the broken heart of my paper, the fifth chapter can be considered

as the second main account on temporality within nouns. This time, the presented

data belong to different linguistic domains, since they offer semantic, morpholo-

gical and syntactic pieces of evidence. These examples seem to be straight for-

ward by accounting them for the first time. However, this changes after a closer

analysis. Again, I will also address such problematic issues.

Apart from obvious difficulties within the given languages and examples, there is

one crucial problem, which needs to be pointed out more precisely and thus, it re-

ceives a chapter on its own. The problem deals with the fact, that the displayed

examples by Burton (1997) and Lecarme (1998) can’t be considered as clearly

or only denoting a temporal setting, but rather or also establishing reference. This

aspect will be dealt with in chapter 6.

The next part, chapter 7, seems to be a rather strange one at first sight. It is called

“Temporal Adverbs = Temporal Noun Phrases?!” and the exclamation mark at the

end appears to be ill-placed as adverbs are obviously not nouns. Thus, there is no

reason why one should ask for or indicate a possible relationship between them.

However, this assumption just holds at first sight or from a superficial point of

view because various researchers, among them Mürvet Enç (1987), Richard K.

Larson (1985) as well as Frank Vlach (1993), have shown that temporal adverbs

can indeed be analysed as noun phrases. I will offer their examples and arguments

in favour of such a view and also discuss questions, which come up in the course

of this topic.

In chapter 8 I will go analysing NPs, but from a somewhat different perspective.

Although one could argue that seven chapters on that topic are enough, I think

there are two further aspects, which need to be addressed. In an “intuitive” way,

I will first take a look at NPs like “ex-wife” or “former lecturer. Then I will turn

to the temporal concept of NPs like “the poem” or “the manual”. These findings

are furnished by data, which I collected from five friends of mine.

The last chapter of this thesis summarises the findings and also points out some

ideas for future researches on that topic. In addition to that, a list with the ab-

breviations used throughout the paper is included.

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