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Temporal information in a sentence locates a situation in time. For instance, (1) informs us that the atelic durative event [Algernon ran in the park] occurred at a time one day prior to the time of speech, for the interval of an hour.
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Smith, C.S. (1997). Temporal Location. In: The Parameter of Aspect. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5606-6_5
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