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The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 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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Pianesi, F., Varzi, A.C. (1999). The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_50

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