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Publication details [#6872]
Molendijk, Arie. 1984. Knowledge of the world and temporality in French: A Reichenbachian approach. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1984 : 129–137.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject
Journal WWW
Annotation
M. proposes some rudiments of a Reichenbachian treatment of temporality in texts. The idea is that the actual temporal interpretation of a text strongly depends on pragmatic factors, although their role is sometimes reduced by non-verbal tense markers.