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BOOK NOTICES 197 glish. Ogihara defends what can be called a 'relative tense theory', in contrast with an alternative absolute tense theory in which tenses are indexicals. According to the author, the apparent indexical behavior of tense is an epiphenomenon. In embedded contexts, tenses are normally interpreted as embedded in the scope of higher tenses. Japanese is a pure relative tense language. Tense morphemes are generally interpreted as embedded, and the highest tense is interpreted in relation to the speech time through selfattribution by the speaker ofthe property denoted by the matrix clause. In Ch. 2, the semantics of tense in simple clauses is discussed. In the third and fourth chapters, the interpretation of tense in embedded clauses is studied, and O develops a new theory of the sequence oftense (SOT) phenomena in embedded sentences. A sentence such as John said that Mary was in Seattle is ambiguous between a simultaneous reading (the time in which Mary is in Seattle is the
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BOOK NOTICES 197 glish. Ogihara defends what can be called a 'relative tense theory', in contrast with an alternative absolute tense theory in which tenses are indexicals. According to the author, the apparent indexical behavior of tense is an epiphenomenon. In embedded contexts, tenses are normally interpreted as embedded in the scope of higher tenses. Japanese is a pure relative tense language. Tense morphemes are generally interpreted as embedded, and the highest tense is interpreted in relation to the speech time through selfattribution by the speaker ofthe property denoted by the matrix clause. In Ch. 2, the semantics of tense in simple clauses is discussed. In the third and fourth chapters, the interpretation of tense in embedded clauses is studied, and O develops a new theory of the sequence oftense (SOT) phenomena in embedded sentences. A sentence such as John said that Mary was in Seattle is ambiguous between a simultaneous reading (the time in which Mary is in Seattle is the
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