Events and Plurality The Jerusalem Lectures
JERUSALEM LECTURES In 1992, I was a Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew Univer sity of Jerusalem. In the context of this, Edit Doron asked me to present a series of weekly evening lectures. The idea was that I would be talking about my own current research on plurality in an e...
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2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
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Table of Contents:
- 5.2. Link’s Theory of Plurality
- 5.3. Distributivity in Landman 1989A
- 5.4. Thematic and Non-Thematic Roles
- Lecture Six: Plural Roles, Scope and Event Types
- 6.1. The Language of Events and Plurality
- 6.2. Collectivity and Distributivity
- 6.3. Three Theories of Scope and Plurality
- 6.4. Cover Readings
- Lecture Seven: Maximalization on Event Types
- 7.1. ExactlyImplicatures
- 7.2. Scalar Triggers and Maximalization Triggers
- 7.3. The Maximalization Conglomerate
- 7.4. Local Assertions and Core Implicatures
- 7.5. Tracing the Origins of the Ideas
- 7.6. Maximalization in Mixed Cases
- Appendix: Defining Upward and Downward Entailingness for Cardinality Relations
- Lecture Eight: Maximalization on Argument State Types
- 8.1. Maximalization and Scope
- 8.2. Properties and Argument State Types
- 8.3. The Scope Theory
- 8.4.Maximalization on Argument State Types
- 8.5. Readings Predicted by the Scope Theory
- 8.6. Shifting Scopal Relations to Plural Argument State Types
- Lecture Nine: Against Binary Quantifiers
- 9.1. Binary Quantifiers: Some Introductory Methodological Moaning
- 9.2. Binary Quantifiers Versus Binary Determiners.
- 9.3. Against Binary Determiners
- 9.4. Branching Quantification
- 9.5. Against Branching Quantifiers
- 9.6. Unary Quantifiers: Some Final Methodological Moaning
- Lecture Ten: Dependent Event Types
- 10.1. Adverbial Distributivy.
- 10.2. Dependency Relations
- 10.3. Yellow Pad Problems
- References
- Lecture One: Arguments for the Davidsonian Theory
- 1.1. The Davidsonian Theory
- 1.2. The Modifier Argument
- 1.3. Modification of States
- 1.4. Explicit Reference to Events
- 1.5. Explicit Reference to States
- 1.6. Perception Reports
- Lecture Two: The Neo-Davisonian Theory, The Unique Role Requirement and the Language of Events
- 2.1. Finegrainedness and the Unique Role Requirement
- 2.2. The Formal Theory
- Lecture Three: The Neo-Davidsonian Theory and Its Rivals
- 3.1. Passive Sensitive Adverbials
- 3.2. Passives
- 3.3. Multiple Roles
- 3.4. The Argument Extension Alternative
- Lecture Four: Scha’s Theory of Plurality
- 4.1. Plurality Structures
- 4.2. Scha’s language of Plurality
- 4.3. Scha’s Grammar
- 4.4. Plurality in Scha’s Theory
- 4.5. The Interpretations of Numerical Noun Phrases
- 4.6. The Analysis of Cumulative Readings
- Lecture Five: Distributivity, Collectivity and Cumulativity
- 5.1. The Language of Plurality