A relevance-theoretic account of be going to

• Autores: Steve Nicolle
• Localización: Journal of linguistics, ISSN 0022-2267, Vol. 33, Nº 2, 1997, págs. 355-377
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper provides a relevance theoretic account of the semantics of the be going to construction in English, based on Klinge's (1993) model for the semantics of the modal auxiliaries, and in particular of will. The semantics of both forms will be accounted for in terms of the relation between linguistic representations of situations and cognitive domains. Finally the pragmatics of utterances of sentences containing will and be going to will be discussed.