Aspectual (re-)interpretation: Structural representation and processing

In this paper I will address some questions arising from current investigations on the aspectual interpretation of utterances and, in particular, the aspectual reinterpretation involved in it. In order to illustrate the issue let me consider some assumptions and observations made in this field of semantic analysis. A general assumption that seems to be accepted by most researchers is Thesis 1.

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