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The Syntax and Semantics of Tense and Time Adverbials in English: An English Fragment

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In this chapter I present an English fragment within the UG framework that contains enough tense and time adverbial apparatus to explicitly generate the example sentences, involving durative/non-durative adverbials and progressive/non-progressive tenses, that were appealed to in chapters two and three to classify verbs aspectually. This is followed by a “lexicon” of words analyzed in this book, together with their translations and/or relevant meaning postulates.

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Dowty, D.R. (1991). The Syntax and Semantics of Tense and Time Adverbials in English: An English Fragment. In: Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9473-7_7

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