... for purposes of discourse understanding in general Finally, I have demonstrated how the narrow scope of tense results in a fully compositional syntax and semantics of tensed sentences in English ... 405-426 Hinrichs, Erhard (1981) Temporale Anaphora irn Encjlischen unpublished Staatsexamen thesis: University of Tuebingen Hinrichs, Erhard (1986) "Temporal Anaphora in Discourses of English" Linguistics ... fugitive is now in jail In contrast to an analysis which interprets the past tense in terms of a Priorean P operator, the narrow scope analysis of tense also avoids the dilemma of inducing a simultaneity...