ON VERBS AND TIME (MONTAGUE GRAMMAR, SEMANTICS, ASPECT, TENSE)

This work is intended to contribute to the study of aspect. It is claimed that, just as change and causation can be viewed conceptually as either instantaneous or continuous, inchoatives and process verbs whose meanings involve such notions, appear in natural language as either event or process type...

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Main Author: ABUSCH, DORIT
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1985
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8509519