The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics

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In Paolo Bouquet, Patrick Brezillon, Francesca Castellani & Luciano Serafini, in Modeling and Using Context. Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference. Springer. pp. 507–510 (1999)
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Temporal reference in natural language is inherently context dependent: what counts as a moment in one context may be structurally analysed in another context, and vice versa. In this note we outline a way of accounting for this phenomenon within event-based semantics.

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