Some effects of aspect on tense construal

Lingua

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 464-502

  Zagona, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bare plurals; Perfect tenses; Progressive; Reference time; Temporal partitivity; Tense

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750855820     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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