TLS XIV: Proceedings of the 14th Texas Linguistic Society
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This study reexamines the semantics of the Portuguese Present Perfect and proposes ananalysis of this periphrastic past that does not appeal to type-shifting coercionmechanisms. Aspectual coercion was claimed to explain purported mismatches betweenselection restrictions of the Portuguese Present tense and the aspectual properties of thePerfect (Schmitt 2001). The present study proposes a truth-conditional compositionalanalysis of sentences with the Portuguese Present Perfect in which the lexical meaning ofthe auxiliary ter ‘have’ combined with the meaning of the Present Indicative tense(ter+PresInd) contribute a universal quantifier whose domain is the topic time interval.
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