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...More structural analogies between pronouns and tenses angelika kratzer university of massachusetts at amherst salt mit the plot in early seventies barbara partee suggested that natural languages might not be operators but like they have indexical anaphoric bound variable uses this short presentation i will discuss one parallel sometimes tense features are interpreted all a phenomenon traditionally called sequence here some illustrations john decided week ago ten days he would say to his mother were having their last meal together abusch said buy fish was still alive ogihara mary predicted she know pregnant minute got sentences underlined necessarily as past three readings where those seem merely agree with higher without making any semantic contribution own surprisingly can behave similar way nor is an example irene heim has been using class lectures only question understood two on reading strict sentence describes situation nobody else second occurrence its usual interpretation it pic...