On 6 December 2011 11:51, Tanner Swett <swe...@mail.gvsu.edu> wrote: > Arguments: to me, "did I register?" sounds like it's asking about a > specific time period (in this case, the time that the ehird's message > was sent), much the way that "did you buy milk at the gas station?" is > asking only about the most recent trip outside.
Arguments: I was going for an ambiguity with the fact that the indication of the message's CFJ nature, and thus arguably the calling of the CFJ, occurs after the isolated registration statement; so "did I register?" would be TRUE as I would have done so immediately prior. But at the same time, spatially, "did I" appears before the registration statement. And "do [...] I register" can be read as one statement, such that the CFJ is interpreted to be referring to events at the same time as the registration, in which case it would be TRUE.
