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Discontinuous past in Abaza: an encoded meaning or an implicature
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Клягина Е. С.
In the paper we argue that the discontinuous past interpretation is a conversational implicature, which rise can be explained by the following chain of reasoning. Natural contexts where the Retro-Aorist is used are clauses that need another clause in the same sentence. Thus, if the Retro-Aorist form is uttered and no other clause appears in the sentence, the discontinuous implicature arises. In other words, the rise of Abaza discontinuous past implicature can be explained by the syntactic rather than semantic property of the Retro-Aorist form.
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