Aspectual Coercion and Lexical Semantics Part 1: Using Selection to Describe the Interaction between Construction and Verb Meaning

What is it about?

This paper addresses two basic questions about the interaction between expressions of tense and aspect and verbal semantics. First, how does a verb that denotes one kind of situation come to denote a completely different type of situation? Second, how does the original meaning of the verb constrain what a type shift can cause it to mean?

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