| 书目名称 | The Language of Propositions and Events | | 副标题 | Issues in the Syntax | | 编辑 | Alessandro Zucchi | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | At a superficial examination, English has different types of nominals with similar meaning and distribution: (1)a. John‘s performance ofthe song b. J ohn‘ s performing of the song c. John‘s performing the song d. the fact that John performs the song These nominals are also perceived by English speakers to be related to the same sentential construction: (2) John performs the song A more accurate inspection reveals, however, that the nominals in (1) differ both in their distribution and in the range of interpretations they allow. An adequate theory of nominalization should explicate rigorously how nominals of the types in (1) are related to sentential construction (2), and should also account for their distributional differences and meaning differences. The task of this book is to develop such a theory. I defend two main theses. The first is that, in order to provide an adequate semantics for the nominals in (1), one needs to distinguish among three types of entities in the domain of discourse (in addition to the type of ordinary individuals): events, propositions, and states xiii XIV PREFACE of affairs. I argue that the nominals in (1) differ in their ability to denote entities of t | | 出版日期 | Book 1993 | | 关键词 | Index; Syntax; language; semantic; semantics; syntactic | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8161-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4310-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-015-8161-5Series ISSN 0924-4662 Series E-ISSN 2215-034X | | issn_series | 0924-4662 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993 |
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