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Chapter 2 introduced the use of multiple indexing for temporal discourse. The most compelling evidence for multiple world indices comes from the behaviour of what are known as ‘actually’ operators. There is now a rather substantial body of work on the logic and semantics of such operators (some of which I will briefly refer to on p.60–62), but although this chapter is in the same spirit it will not be my purpose to develop a logic of ‘actually’ operators, but merely to attempt to investigate the extent to which they are required for the semantics of natural language. These operators are the modal analogues of ‘now’ and ‘then’ in tense logic as used in sentences like (7) on p.18.
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Cresswell, M.J. (1990). ‘Actually’. In: Entities and Indices. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2139-9_3
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