A default, truth conditional semantics for the progressive

DOI10.1007/BF00630628MaRDI QIDQ4033670zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nicholas M. Asher

Publication date 16 May 1993

Published in Linguistics and Philosophy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630628

zbMATH Keywords

commonsense entailmentdefaultinterval semanticsnonmonotonic entailmentpossible worldsemantics of progressive tenses in English

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic of natural languages (03B65)

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