Landman Events and Plurality

The Jerusalem Lectures
2000
ISBN: 978-94-011-4359-2
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 76, 396 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

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 event based theory, without the restraints that a nonnal seminar fonnat would im pose: i.e. the idea was that I would actually get to the part where I would talk about my own work. At the same time, Edit added, it would be nice if, rather than just presupposing or presenting a neo-Davidsonian framework to develop my analysis of plurality, I could provide a more general setting of the problems by discussing in some depth the archi tecture of event arguments and thematic roles. In particular, Terry Parsons' book, Par sons 1990, had appeared relatively recently, and there was real interest among the audience in discussing Parsons' arguments for events and roles.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Landman, Fred

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Lecture One: Arguments for the Davidsonian Theory. Lecture Two: The Neo-Davidsonian Theory, the Unique Role Requirement and the Language of Events. Lecture Three: The Neo-Davidsonian Theory and Its Rivals. Lecture Four: Scha's Theory of Plurality. Lecture Five: Distributivity, Collectivity and Cumulativity. Lecture Six: Plural Roles, Scope and Event Types. Lecture Seven: Maximalization on Event Types. Lecture Eight: Maximalization on Argument State Types. Lecture Nine: Against Binary Quantifiers. Lecture Ten: Dependent Event Types. References.