Download or read book Tense, Reference, and Worldmaking written by James Alasdair McGilvray and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenses of natural languages are intimately connected with the abilities we have to relate real or fictional stories that take place outside our immediate temporal or spacial context. While philosophers and cognitive scientists have had difficulty coming to terms with these abilities, James McGilvray maintains that they must be understood before an adequate view of what a tense is can be constructed.