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Publication details [#5682]

König, Ekkehard. 1980. On the context-dependence of the progressive in English. In Rohrer, Christian, ed. Time, tense and quantifiers: Proceedings of the Stuttgart Conference on the logic of tense and quantification. M. Niemeyer. pp. 269–291.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | progressive

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

K. criticizes formal semantic analysis of the English progressive by D.R. Dowty, on the basis of the fact that it fails to account for a particular use of this form.