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The progressive and the imperfective paradox

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Many thanks are due to Barry Richards, Marc Moens and Jon Oberlander, whose responses to my work have contributed in no small way to whatever coherence exists here.

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Lascarides, A. The progressive and the imperfective paradox. Synthese 87, 401–447 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00499819

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