Progressive aspect and distributively quantified objects : a semantic/pragmatic account
This thesis is concerned with progressivize verbs that take distributively quantifying objects. Sentences like (1) are typically judged to be odd or incoherent: (1) ?Charlotte was eating every cookie. However, in the special discourse context of (2), the sentence is coherent. In this context, it is...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15558 |