The Imperfective Paradox and Trajectory-of-Motion Events
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In the rst part of the paper, I present a new treatment of the imperfective paradox (Dowty 1979) for the restricted case of trajectory-of-motion events. This treatment extends and re-nes those of Moens and Steedman (1988) and Jackendoo (1991). In the second part, I describe an implemented algorithm based on this treatment which determines whether a speciied sequence of such events is or is not possible under certain sit-uationally supplied constraints and restrictive assumptions .
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تاریخ انتشار 1993