?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Metarepresentation%2C+tense%2C+aspect+and+narratives%3A+the+case+of+Behdini-Kurdish+and+Estonian&rft.creator=Unger%2C+Christoph&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.description=This+paper+looks+at+three+sets+of+data%2C+two+from+Behdini-Kurdish+and+one+from+Estonian%2C+where+a+metarepresentational+use+analysis+enhances+the+linguistic+analysis+of+certain+linguistic+forms.+The+aspective+marker+da+in+Behdini+is+used+in+two+ways%2C+as+a+near+counterfactual+past+and+a+distant+habitual+past%3A%0A%0A(1)%09ew+da+genim-%C3%AA+%C3%A7%C3%AEn-in%0A%09They+IM+wheat-OBL.M.SG+grow-3PL%0A%091.+'They+set+out+to+sow+wheat+(but+where+prevented+from+doing+it)'%0A%092.+'They+used+to+grow+wheat+(in+old+times%3B+of+the+people+of+a+village)'%0A%0AMy+claim+is+that+da+encodes+a+procedure+to+embed+the+proposition+expressed+under+a+higher+order+respresentation+such+as+'the+speaker+intends+the+addressee+to+imagine+a+situation+where+P+holds%2C'+and+I'll+argue+that+the+attested+uses+can+be+pragmatically+explained+on+the+basis+of+this+semantics.+Thus+it+appears+that+metarepresentations+can+explain+some+phenomena+normally+attributed+to+the+category+of+aspect.%0AThe+future+marker+d%C3%AA+in+Behdini+is+used+syntactically+in+a+very+similar+way%3A%0A%0A(2)%09ew+d%C3%AA+xwarin-%C3%AA+%C3%A7%C3%AAk-in%0A%09they+FUT+meal-OBL.F.SG+prepare-3PL%0A%09'they+will+prepare+the+meal'%0A%0AI+present+arguments+both+from+within+Behdini+as+well+as+cross-linguistically+that+the+future+tense+in+Behdini+should+be+analysed+as+procedurally+encoding+metarepresentational+use%3A+the+proposition+expressed+is+to+be+embedded+under+a+higher-order+representation+of+the+form+'the+speaker+intends+the+addressee+to+imagine+a+situation+where+P+holds+and+P+has+not+yet+occured'.+This+analysis+raises+a+number+of+questions+for+the+analysis+of+future+tense+markers+cross-linguistically.%0AFinally%2C+I+argue+that+the+so-called+'quotative+mood'+in+Estonian+is+better+analysed+as+attributive+interpretive+use+marker.+One+of+the+many+advantages+of+this+analysis+is+the+fact+that+it+sheds+light+on+the+use+of+the+quotative+in+narratives%2C+especially+folk+tales%3A+narrative+exploits+metarepresentations+in+various+ways%2C+hence+it+is+not+surprising+to+find+interpretive+use+markers+used+as+narrative+forms.+This+raises+the+question+whether+other+so-called+'narrative+verb+forms'+in+other+langauges+should+be+re-analysed+as+interpretive+use+markers.%0A%0A&rft.date=2003&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5464%2F1%2Festbhd_metarep.pdf&rft.identifier=++Unger%2C+Christoph++(2003)+Metarepresentation%2C+tense%2C+aspect+and+narratives%3A+the+case+of+Behdini-Kurdish+and+Estonian.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5464%2F