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Publication details [#32729]
Michaelis, Laura A. 1992. Aspect and the semantics-pragmatics interface: The case of already. Lingua 87 (4) : 321–339. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0024-3841
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study considers the English adverb 'already' as a pragmatically ambiguous marker of temporal priority, and discusses instances of its variety of uses in context .