Titlebook: Events and Grammar; Susan Rothstein Book 1998 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998 grammar.language.Proposition.semantic.semanti

Innocence

anticipate

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02628-8Sentences containing plural or conjoined noun phrases often display an ambiguity between so-called . and . readings. For example, sentence (1) can mean either than John and Mary each bought a house, which is the distributive reading, or that they bought one jointly, which is the collective reading.

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Elektromotor und ArbeitsmaschineAccording to Davidson (1967) verbs logically have one more argument than is apparent from the usual subcategorization frame of the verb, — a non-thematic argument, denoting an event:

Intercept

哎呦

Introduction,The fact that we make reference to events in our language is a well established linguistic fact. Nominals have long been recognised as elements which can refer to events. Vendler (1967) discusses the meanings of derived nominals such as the subject in (1), and shows that it is ambiguous.

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Generalizing Tense Semantics for Future Contexts,The behavior of tenses in future contexts is quite peculiar. When a present tense is under the scope of a future auxiliary (.), the temporal location for events constrained by that tense is shifted forward. Although . in (1) has present tense, the anticipated meeting events follow the utterance time.

inventory

On Generic and Existential Bare Plurals and the Classification of Predicates,This paper is concerned with what allows a bare plural NP to be interpreted either existentially or generically in examples like (1a), and what excludes the existential interpretation in examples like (1b) — a question raised and discussed by Diesing (1992a) and Kratzer (1995).

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Events in the Semantics of Collectivizing Adverbials,Sentences containing plural or conjoined noun phrases often display an ambiguity between so-called . and . readings. For example, sentence (1) can mean either than John and Mary each bought a house, which is the distributive reading, or that they bought one jointly, which is the collective reading.

Concrete

Cognate Objects as Reflections of Davidsonian Event Arguments,According to Davidson (1967) verbs logically have one more argument than is apparent from the usual subcategorization frame of the verb, — a non-thematic argument, denoting an event:

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