Daniel Altshuler’s book on Events, States, and Times (An Essay on Narrative Discourse in English) has just come out. For this book, Daniel won the Grand Prize of the Emerging Scholar Monograph Competition. The book is Open Access, you can read it here. And here is what renowned semanticist Hans Kamp says about the book:

“This book is an important and innovative contribution to the literature on time, aspect and discourse structure. By carefully probing into the different uses of a single word (the English adverb `now’) and into the various theories that have been put forward to account for those uses, Altshuler succeeds in throwing new light on the intriguing interactions between temporal reference, event structure and rhetorical relations. The insights of Part I are put to excellent use in Part II, where they are applied to two notorious puzzles from the tense and aspect literature, cessation and double access. As Altshuler shows convincingly, only a penetrating analysis of the interaction between temporal, aspectual and rhetorical relations will lead to a solution of these puzzles.”