Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications /

Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications / / ed. by Angelika Wöllstein, Claudia Maienborn.

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Since entering the stage, Davidsonian event arguments have taken on a central role in linguistic theorizing. Recent years have seen a continuous extension of possible applications for them, not only in semantics but also in syntax. At the same time questions concerning the ontological status of even...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Abraham, Werner,
Alexiadou, Artemis,
Bierwisch, Manfred,
Caudal, Patrick,
Eckardt, Regine,
Engelberg, Stefan,
Gonzàlez-Vilbazo, Kay-Eduardo,
Hole, Daniel,
Kaufmann, Ingrid,
Kratzer, Angelika,
Lohnstein, Horst,
Maienborn, Claudia,
Mittwoch, Anita,
Nakanishi, Kimiko,
Nicolas, David,
Remberger, Eva-Maria,
Wöllstein, Angelika,
HerausgeberIn:
Maienborn, Claudia,
Wöllstein, Angelika,
Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 501
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section I: Events – states – causation
  • The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME
  • Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects
  • Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations
  • Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish
  • Sentence connection as quantificational structure
  • Section II: Event nominals
  • Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation
  • Referential arguments of nouns and verbs
  • Section III: Events in composition
  • Building resultatives
  • Reconciling “possessor” datives and “beneficiary” datives – Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German
  • Event arguments and modal verbs
  • Section IV: Measuring events
  • Types of degrees and types of event structures
  • Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items
  • Semantic properties of split topicalization in German
  • Author index
  • Subject index

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