Branching from Inertia Worlds
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چکیده
The notion of inertia is explicated in terms of forces recorded in snapshots that are strung together to represent events. The role inertia worlds were conceived to serve in the semantics of the progressive is assumed by a branching construct that specifies what may follow, apart from what follows.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Semantics
دوره 25 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008