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Journal of Semantics Advance Access originally published online on June 3, 2008
Journal of Semantics 2008 25(3):321-344; doi:10.1093/jos/ffn002
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This article appears in the following Journal of Semantics issue: Special issue on MODALITY AND EVIDENTIALITY [View the issue table of contents]

Branching from Inertia Worlds

Tim Fernando

Trinity College Dublin

Correspondence: TIM FERNANDO, Computer Science Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland, e-mail: tim.fernando{at}tcd.ie


  Abstract

The notion of inertia is explicated in terms of forces recorded in snapshots that are strung together to represent events. The role inertia worlds were conceived to serve in the semantics of the progressive is assumed by a branching construct that specifies what may follow, apart from what follows.

Received for publication 10 October 2005. Revision received 2 October 2006. Accepted for publication 1 April 2007.


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