Events and Grammar

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-1-4020-0289-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1220 g

Reihe: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

This volume covers a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. It addresses event arguments and thematic argument structure, the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions, events and the distinction between stage and individual level predicates, and the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scope relations. It is of interest to scholars and students of theoretical linguistics, philosophers of language, computational linguists, and computer scientists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothstein, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.