Aspectual Shift as Type Coercion
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Aspectual Shift as Type Coercion Draft 1
The phenomenon of aspectual shift has been discussed by several people over the last ten years using an analogy with type coercion in programming languages. This paper tries to take the analogy literally and to spell out the details for an analysis of some common kinds of aspectual shift in English under the innuence of some types of temporal modiication. A model theoretic basis for this kind o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of the Philological Society
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0079-1636,1467-968X
DOI: 10.1111/1467-968x.00020