Evaluating Prospectivity in a Neo-Reichenbachian Aspectual System

This paper pursues an analysis of prospective aspect and its similarity to the perfect. I adopt the term ‘prospective’ for any aspect whose semantics orders RT prior to ET, and propose a set of diagnostics for prospectivity. Then I discuss properties of perfects which might be shared by this aspect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reed, Sylvia L.
Other Authors: University of Arizona
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/231211