ISBN:
9789401139694
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (V, 386 p)
,
online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 70
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Keywords:
Linguistics Philosophy
;
Semantics
;
Linguistics
;
Semiotics.
;
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Abstract:
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 interface, covering a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. The papers extensively address the following topics, among others: event arguments and thematic argument structure; the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions; events and the distinction between stage and individual level predicates; the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scope relations, the mass/count distinction, and propositional attitudes
Description / Table of Contents:
Generalizing Tense Semantics for Future ContextsThematic 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.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4
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