Precise meaning of “Last N days, weeks, months or years”

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Such a phrase can either include or exclude the current moment, depending on how it's used. The phrase by itself represents a set of time points that can either be open or closed; closure, if any, is provided by the construction it occurs in.

Fillmore's 1971 Deixis Lectures cover this question among many others, in the third lecture, "Time".

The first two lectures in the series are recommended for background in reading this; these were actually delivered as a series of lectures, and such texts tend to build up ideas one by one, at the speed of vocal understanding, instead of compressing them into theories.

So it's serious linguistics, but it's actually composed in well-written English prose. With amusing asides. And real jokes. That got laughs, at least in Chuck Fillmore's deadpan delivery.

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