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

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Thematic Roles and the Individuation of Events,ear to be dispensable entities in the sense that it is easy to conceive of how to write a lexicon, a syntax, a morphology, a semantics, or a pragmatics without them. Still, the observations surrounding thematic roles are just tantalizing enough to take notice, and make one wonder what they might be.

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,Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of “Semantic Parameter”,nt distinction seems to provide evidence for a semantic parameter. In the rest of this introduction, I will first try to give in a highly informal way an idea of the main thesis to be defended. Then I will briefly review the main data to be accounted for. Looking ahead to the overall organization of

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,Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of “Semantic Parameter”,hat is the (only) way in which they differ from count nouns. On the basis of this hypothesis (let us dub it the Inherent Plurality Hypothesis), I will offer a new account of the distribution of mass and count quantifiers, one that takes into consideration possible crosslinguistic variations in such

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Progressives, States and Backgrounding,account goes some way towards explaining the discourse properties of progressive sentences, and has been adopted by a number of authors, including Moens (1987), Parsons (1990), and Kamp and Reyle (1993). Others, including Smith (1991), have argued against treating the progressive as a stativizer. I

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An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew,ollowing Doron’s (1983) terminology), and discuss the implications of this claim for a number of topics dealt with in current theories of genericity. I begin with a background about the distribution of Pron, and make the initial claim about the connection between Pron and genericity. In section 3 an

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Stativity and Theticity,on that some utterances are “about an individual,” or have a clear predicational structure; while others are neutral descriptions of eventualities, or lack a clear predicational structure. I will assume that this basic classification has some reality, and following one line of literature, I will ref

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