English temporal deictic adverbs

English then is the distal temporal deictic adverb: it refers to a past or future time away from the deictic centre, typically one established in the preceding discourse, as in The janitor turned off the lights. The room was empty then. The description follows [TZ26].

References

• [TZ26]

def English.TemporalDeictic.then_ : Tense.DeicticAdverb

then, a time before or after the deictic centre.

Equations

• English.TemporalDeictic.then_ = { form := "then", cell := (Semantics.Denotes.denote Tense.present)ᶜ }