The Progressive and the Imperfective Paradox
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The Progressive and the Imperfective Paradox the Eventual Outcome Strategy 1 the Motivation for the Eventual Outcome Strategy 3 Dowty's Formulation of the Eventual Outcome Strategy
Formal semantics constitutes the framework of the research presented here, and the aim is to provide a solution to the imperfective paradox; i.e. explain why \Max was running" entails \Max ran", but \Max was running home" does not entail \Max ran home". This paper is divided into two parts. In Part I we evaluate what I will call the Eventual Outcome Strategy for solving the imperfective paradox...
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