temporality ii: tense & tense. a sister project to this one, this project examines a different kind of embedded temporal operator: the perfect. a common but not ubiquitous theme in this work is that the perfect has the same type as tenses, and can indeed be identified with the past tense, at least in english.

• ⊖what the past says about present and future, and what that says about the perfect. in this paper i propose that certain "oddities" of the english present perfect can be explained by appeal to a new semantics for the past tense, one which is motivated by the hitherto un(der)noticed fact that the past tense, in certain contexts, gives rise to inferences of present/future non-occurrence. i presented some of this work at SUB 20 (paper), and a longer manuscript is currently under review.
  
  
• ⊖frame adverbs and the present perfect puzzle. in this paper, i argue that frame adverbs constrain temporal interpretation "at a distance", using a method developed for attitude verbs in my paper modality and embedded temporal operators. this can explain a beguiling problem in the history of the analysis of the english perfect: the present perfect puzzle. a part of this was presented at SUB 20 (paper), and i was preparing a manuscript for publication when i left my last academic job. i may eventually try to publish it..