Temporal reasoning with aspectual adverbials
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This paper' presents an analysis of dynamic temporal reasoning with Dutch adverbials of aspectual focus. The crucial property of focus constructions is the inherent opposition between the actual value for a given parameter and the possible alternatives in the speaker's expectation. The dynamic perspective tries to account for the fact that when new information is added, certain components are updated, whereas other components remain constant across information states. However, both the focus dimension and the dynamic dimension presuppose a more elementary step in the analysis, namely that of aspectual continuity and that of static temporal reasoning.
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