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In the previous two chapters, we have been interested in temporal structures, where the primitives are moments of time or instants. We will now be interested in structures where the basic units are periods (and in the next section, events). In particular, we will be interested in the relations between instant structures and period structures. For a thorough discussion of the topics in this chapter, see van Benthem (1983), Kamp (1979a) and Kamp (1979b). I will be following van Benthem’s exposition rather closely here.
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Landman, F. (1991). Constructions with Partial Orders. In: Structures for Semantics. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3212-1_4
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