3. Aspectual coercions in content composition

Asher, Nicholas; Hunter, Julie

doi:10.1075/hcp.37.07ash

In:Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition
Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
[Human Cognitive Processing 37] 2012
► pp. 55–81

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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

Published online: 24 July 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.37.07ash

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, contextual meaning, temporal information

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