piñón: a semantics for durative adverbials

abstract

Shortcomings of existing analyses of durative adverbials are reviewed and a new approach is proposed with an aim at overcoming these shortcomings. Characteristic of the new approach is that it considerably weakens the core semantics of durative adverbials and that it builds in a notion of distribution that seems essential for treating combinations of durative adverbials and frequency adverbials.

note

These are the slides of a talk that I gave on 4 October 1999 at Sinn und Bedeutung at Universität Düsseldorf. I still intend to write up the corresponding paper someday! :-)

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piñón: a semantics for durative adverbials
last updated on 24 aug 07
christopher piñón (pinon AT sdf HYPHEN eu DOT org)

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