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Tense, aspect and modality
Year: 1988 Cambridge University Press eBooks Pages: 69-83 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Abstract
This chapter will be primarily concerned with the semantics of the tense inflections and of certain aspectual and modal catenatives; in addition we will consider, in the light of this semantic discussion and of what has already been said about the grammar, the nature of tense, aspect and mood/modality as general linguistic categories.
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Modality (human–computer interaction) Linguistics Computer science History Psychology Artificial intelligence Philosophy
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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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