Abstract
The semantics of almost and its counterparts in other languages has attracted considerable
attention in the linguistic literature (cf. e.g. Sadock 1981, Sevi 1998, Horn 2002, Rotstein and
Winter 2004, Penka 2005, Nouwen 2006, Greenberg and Ronen 2013 and references therein.) A
number of analyses have been proposed, but certain questions still remain unanswered. The goal
of this paper is to contribute to this investigation by proposing an analysis of a certain sub-use of
almost (specifically, the counterfactual use) and by analyzing its Russian counterparts.
attention in the linguistic literature (cf. e.g. Sadock 1981, Sevi 1998, Horn 2002, Rotstein and
Winter 2004, Penka 2005, Nouwen 2006, Greenberg and Ronen 2013 and references therein.) A
number of analyses have been proposed, but certain questions still remain unanswered. The goal
of this paper is to contribute to this investigation by proposing an analysis of a certain sub-use of
almost (specifically, the counterfactual use) and by analyzing its Russian counterparts.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics |
| Editors | Nurit Melnik |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge, MA |
| Publisher | MIT |
| Pages | 57-68 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| State | Published - 2014 |
Publication series
| Name | MIT Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Volume | 78 |