Actuality inferences : causality, aspect, and modality / Prerna Nadathur.

Expressions of ability exhibit a curious ambiguity, sometimes describing the potential actions of an agent, and in others simply what the agent did on a particular occasion. In aspect-marking languages, the ambiguity extends to abilitative uses of the possibility modal and is governed by aspectual m...

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Main Author: Nadathur, Prerna (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics ; 15.
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