Events and Grammar
In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen original studies by leading scholars in semantics and the syntax/semantics inter...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Generalizing Tense Semantics for Future Contexts
- Thematic Roles and the Individuation of Events
- Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of “Semantic Parameter”
- Progressives, States and Backgrounding
- An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew
- On Generic and Existential Bare Plurals and the Classification of Predicates
- Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-scope Indefinites?
- The Origins of Telicity
- Plurals and Maximalization
- Events in the Semantics of Collectivizing Adverbials
- Stativity and Theticity
- Cognate Objects as Reflections of Davidsonian Event Arguments
- Subject-oriented Adverbs are Thematically Dependent
- Aspect Shift
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects