3. Aspectual coercions in content composition

Nicholas Asher | Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

Julie Hunter | Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, IJN & EHESS

This chapter investigates the encoding of temporal information in aspect, and how that information may shift based on contextual factors. Analyzing these shifts leads to a more complex view as to how temporal information in a sentence or a discourse results from meaning composition than standardly assumed.

Keywords: aspect, temporal information, contextual meaning

Published online: 24 July 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.37.07ash

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