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BL
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1012654
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b767024
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| Main Entry
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Higginbotham, James.
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| Title & Author
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Tense, aspect, and indexicality /\ James Higginbotham.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009.
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Oxford linguistics
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Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ;; 26
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1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0191567485
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: 0191716901
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: 1282383914
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: 6612383917
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: 9780191567483
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: 9780191716904
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: 9780199239313
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: 9780199239320
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: 9781282383913
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: 9786612383915
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-254) and index.
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| Contents
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Tense, indexicality, and consequence -- On events in linguistic semantics -- Tensed thoughts -- Tensed second thoughts: comments on Richard -- Why is sequense of tense obligatory -- Anaphoric tense -- Accomplishments -- The English progressive -- The English perfect and the metaphysics of events -- Competence with demonstratives -- A plea for implicit anaphora -- Remembering, imagining and the first person.
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| Abstract
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James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Aspect.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Tense.
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Indexicals (Semantics)
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Language and languages-- Philosophy.
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Aspect.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Tense.
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Indexicals (Semantics)
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Language and languages-- Philosophy.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Grammar Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.
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Languages Literatures.
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Philology Linguistics.
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Aspect (taalkunde)
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Tijden (taalkunde)
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| Dewey Classification
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415
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| LC Classification
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P107.H55 2009eb
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| NLM classification
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17.50bcl
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