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It is usually thought that Dowty’s decompositional approach to aspect and that of event-semantics are incompatible with each other. In this paper this is shown to be wrong by presenting a theory that combines both approaches. The decompositional component is represented by a two-sorted variant B of TL with corresponding structure B introduced by Van Benthem et al. (1994) in which the second sort besides that of formulas is that of procedures. The event-component is represented by an eventuality-structure E. By combining both structures one gets a double perspective: whereas at the level of E events are structureless objects, they are assigned an internal structure in form of a sequence in B according to which events are interpreted as state-transformers. This makes it possible to define various aspectual classes that cannot be defined in event-semantics.
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Naumann, R. (2000). A Dynamic Temporal Logic for Aspectual Phenomena in Natural Language. In: Barringer, H., Fisher, M., Gabbay, D., Gough, G. (eds) Advances in Temporal Logic. Applied Logic Series, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9586-5_12
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