Events and Grammar

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.

ISBN 1402002890   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781402002892 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1220 Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers   Published in Dordrecht Imprint Kluwer Academic Publishers   Series ISSN 70 Format Paperback   Series title Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Publication date 30 Nov 2001   Height (mm) 235 DEWEY 401.43   Width (mm) 155 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 20 Pages 396   Academic level General

1. Introduction; S. Rothstein. 2. Generalizing Tense Semantics for Future Contexts; D. Abusch. 3. Thematic Roles and the Individuation of Events; G. Carlson. 4. Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of 'Semantic Parameter'; G. Chierchia. 5. Progressives, States and Backgrounding; S. Glasbey. 6. An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew; Y. Greenberg. 7. On Generic and Existential Bare Plurals and the Classification of Predicates; K.E. Kiss. 8. Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-Scope Indefinites? A. Kratzer. 9. The Origins of Telicity; M. Krifka. 10. Plurals and Maximalization; F. Landman. 11. Events in the Semantics of Collectivizing Adverbials; P. Lasersohn. 12. Stativity and Theticity; L. McNally. 13. Cognate Objects as Reflections of Davidsonian Event Arguments; A. Mittwoch. 14. Subject-Oriented Adverbs are Thematically Dependent; A.Z. Wyner. 15. Aspect Shift; S. Zucchi. Index.

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