Contradictory (forward) lifetime effects and the non-future tense in Mandarin Chinese
Lifetime effects refer to the inferences about the life/death of the individual in sentences with individual-level predicates like ‘Mary is/was blue-eyed’. In English, contradictory lifetime inferences arise when the subject denotes one living and one dead individual (e.g. Saussuredead and Chomskyli...
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Linguistic Society of America
2018
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