The semantic contribution of the past tense morpheme kaan in Palestinian counterfactuals
Reasoning along the lines of Iatridou (2000), we argue in this paper that the Palestinian morpheme kaan that is normally used to express semantic past tense actually denotes Non-Actual Veridicality, i.e. including kaan states that the proposition it applies to is true in a different world-time pair...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/79 |