Temporal Adverbials and Stereotypical Intervals
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This study will consider the semantic behavior of the temporal negators not yet and never in English. In this paper, I show that not yet, by default, uses the stereotypical intervals connected with certain events to determine the time span of its negation, while never systematically ignores these stereotypical intervals. I show that in order to correctly distinguish between these two lexical items, it will be necessary to use Discourse Representation Structures in conjunction with a Semantic Framelinked denotation for not yet.
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