Exclamatives, Normalcy Conditions and Common Ground
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Both early and recent work on modal expressions has been focused on the way their root and non-root interpretations correlate with the properties of the predicates with which they combine (see eg Bertinetto, 1979; Condoravdi, 2001; Werner, 2006). Likewise, the temporal and the modal interpretations of the future have also been studied in correlation with the eventive versus stative distinction....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revue de sémantique et pragmatique
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1285-4093,2610-4377
DOI: 10.4000/rsp.279