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title: "Dynamic Semantics for Tense and Aspect"
authors:
  - "Mark Steedman"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/166"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0166.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "1292-1297"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# Dynamic Semantics for Tense and Aspect

Mark Steedman

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1292-1297.

## Abstract

A semantics for tense, modality, and aspect in natural l anguage must capture causal and contingent rel ations between events and states, as well as merely tempora l ones. The paper investigates a non-reified, dynamic logic-based, formulation of the situation calculus as a formalism for a computational semantics for a number of temporal categories in English , and suggests that some recent claims that dynamic logics are inherently unsuitable for this purpose have taken too narrow a view of the situation calculi .