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Publication details [#27912]

Michaelis, Laura A. 1996. On the use and meaning of already. Linguistics and Philosophy 19 (4) : 477–502.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | content1 | function | meaning | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0165-0157

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper argues that a subsequent and not an anterior contiguous interval is crucial to the definition of already, and offers a subtle semantic analysis whose appropriateness is obvious only once one can distinguish the semantic content of already from its communicative funtions.