P10 – Deficiency and Redundancy in Expressing Temporal Relations
Project description
This subproject develops a formal semantic theory of temporal pronouns and integrates it into a broader model of temporal expressions, including temporal and quantifying adverbials, tense, and aspect. It examines the temporal specification or underspecification of features on tense morphemes and their interpretation when bound by other tense forms, intensional verbs, or temporal adverbials. By applying insights about free and bound personal pronouns from P02 and P03 to the temporal domain, the project tests whether pronominal systems share underlying principles across distinct ontological domains.
The comparative analysis includes languages with articulated tense systems, such as English and German; languages with articulated aspect systems, including Russian and other Slavic languages; and so-called tenseless languages, such as Mandarin Chinese.
Team
Daniel Büring
Principal Investigator
University of Vienna
Daniel Büring received his PhD from the University of Tübingen and is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Vienna. His research in formal semantics and pragmatics covers intonation and meaning, binding theory, comparatives, discourse particles, and tense. Read more
Madeleine Butschety
Postdoc Researcher
University of Vienna
Madeleine Butschety completed her dissertation at University of Graz. Her work focuses on cross-linguistic research on topics in formal semantics and syntax, such as complement anaphora, comparatives/equatives, plural pronouns, quantification, and temporal adverbials. Read more
Melanie Loitzl
PhD Student
University of Vienna
Melanie Loitzl studied German, English, American Studies, and Teacher Education at the University of Graz, where she completed a master’s thesis on directional adverbs in Bavarian. Her doctoral research examines the semantics and syntax of temporal adverbs, their interaction with tense, and their empirical investigation. Read more
Justina Schindler
PhD Student
University of Vienna
Justina Schindler studied linguistics at Leipzig University and the University of Vienna and pursued additional studies in logic at the University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral research in formal semantics focuses on the interaction between tense and temporal quantification. Read more
Cluster membership
Output
Publications
2026
Büring, D. (2026). Double Access and the Semantics of Attitude and Speech Reports. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 30 (SuB 30).
author={Büring, D.},
title={Double Access and the Semantics of Attitude and Speech Reports},
year={2026},
booktitle={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB 30)} }
Büring, D., & Loitzl, M. (2026). Complex Temporal Modifiers in German. Proceedings of the Conference Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED) 2025.
author={Büring, D. and Loitzl, M.},
title={Complex Temporal Modifiers in German},
year={2026},
place={Graz},
booktitle={Proceedings of the conference Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED) 2025} }
Talks
2026
Butschety, M., & Loitzl, M. (2026). Did you have already expectations? On the German adverbial schon “already” and (un)expectedness. SinFonIJA 19, Graz.
author={Butschety, M. and Loitzl, M.},
title={Did you have already expectations? On the German adverbial schon “already” and (un)expectedness},
year={2026},
eventtitle={SinFonIJA 19},
venue={Graz} }
2025
Büring, D. (2025). A New Semantics for Attitude Reports. Sinn und Bedeutung 30, Frankfurt.
author={Büring, D.},
title={A New Semantics for Attitude Reports},
year={2025},
eventtitle={Sinn und Bedeutung 30},
venue={Frankfurt} }
Büring, D., & Loitzl, M. (2025). Complex Temporal Modifiers in German. RED, Graz.
author={Büring, D. and Loitzl, M.},
title={Complex Temporal Modifiers in German},
year={2025},
eventtitle={RED},
venue={Graz} }
Büring, D., & Schindler, J. (2025). Full-frame effects with temporal quantifers. In Workshop “Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics”. 49. ÖLT, Klagenfurt.
author={Büring, D. and Schindler, J.},
title={Full-frame effects with temporal quantifers},
year={2025},
eventtitle={49. ÖLT},
venue={Klagenfurt},
journal={Workshop “Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics”} }
Loitzl, M. (2025). Complex Temporal Modifiers in German [Poster]. Redefi Days, Salzburg.
author={Loitzl, M.},
title={Complex Temporal Modifiers in German},
year={2025},
eventtitle={Redefi Days},
venue={Salzburg} }
Loitzl, M. (2025). Is früher an indexical?. Redefi Days.
author={Loitzl, M.},
title={Is früher an indexical?},
year={2025},
eventtitle={Redefi Days} }
Loitzl, M. (2025). The issue of classifying German ‘früher’. 77. StuTS, Leipzig.
author={Loitzl, M.},
title={The issue of classifying German ‘früher’},
year={2025},
eventtitle={77. StuTS},
venue={Leipzig} }
Schindler, J. (2025). Deriving the Full-frame effect.. 78. StuTS, Stuttgart.
author={Schindler, J.},
title={Deriving the Full-frame effect.},
year={2025},
eventtitle={78. StuTS},
venue={Stuttgart} }