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Interpreting Tense, Aspect and Time Adverbials: A Compositional, Unified Approach
We extend our theory of English tense aspect and time adverbials Hwang and Schubert to deal with a wider range of time adverbials including many adverbials of frequency cardinality duration and time span and adverbials of tempo ral relation involving subordinating conjunctions such as after since and until Our theory is fully formal in that it derives indexical quasi logical forms from syntacti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 1991
ISSN: 2163-5951
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.2763