just now and now now (again)

[Lynne Murphy]

Continuing to clean out my files, and came across this:

Wright, Susan.  1987.  "Now now" not "just now":  The interpretation of
temporal deictic expressions in South African English.  African Studies
46:2.163-78.

Her diagram of future time is something like:

now------>now now------>just now------->

Lynne, who's gotten to the end of the alphabet

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M. Lynne Murphy, Assistant Professor in Linguistics
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