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Title
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The semantics of the simple tenses and full-verb inversion in English : a story of shared epistemic schemas
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Author
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Abstract
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| This paper offers a fresh perspective on (restrictions on) aspectual coercion, thereby focusing on the essentially epistemic import of aspectual constructions. The case study that I will discuss is the unexpected use of the simple tenses for ongoing event reports in sentences involving full-verb inversion. I will argue that this attestation of the simple present/past in inverted sentences can be analyzed as a kind of aspectual mismatch between the higher-order construction and the embedded tenses. Yet at a more basic, epistemic level of analysis, there is no mismatch: the full-verb inversion construction and the embedded tenses are similar in the sense that both report events that are conceived of as fully and instantly identifiable. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Constructions and frames. - Amsterdam
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Publication
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Amsterdam
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2018
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ISSN
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1876-1933
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DOI
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10.1075/CF.00019.WIT
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Volume/pages
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10
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(2018)
, p. 210-233
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ISI
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000456510300004
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