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Toward a semantic analysis of verb aspect and the English ‘imperfective’ progressive

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Dowty, D.R. Toward a semantic analysis of verb aspect and the English ‘imperfective’ progressive. Linguistic and Philosophy 1, 45–77 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351936

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