The grammar of ONCE: On the syntactic representation of aspect and logophoricity
Verner Egerland
May 2011
 

The English aspectual adverbial once, and its equivalents in French (une fois), Italian (una volta), and Swedish (väl) are interestingly polysemic. Firstly, they introduce an aspectual interpretation of immediacy. Secondly, they add a feature of subjectivity or sentience to the interpretation of the construction. Thirdly, they license predicative interpretations where such readings are otherwise not available. Arguably, the distribution of once-adverbials sheds light on the grammatical representation of aspect and logophoricity.
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keywords: aspect, logophoricity, immediacy, small clauses, swedish, french, italian, syntax
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