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In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen studies by scholars in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface, covering a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. The papers address the following topics: event arguments and thematic argument structure; the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions; events and the distinction between stage and individual level predicates; the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scope relations, the mass/count distinction, and propositional attitudes.

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Author:   Susan Rothstein
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   70
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.610kg
ISBN:  

9780792349402

ISBN 10:   0792349407
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   31 July 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Generalizing Tense Semantics for Future Contexts.- Thematic Roles and the Individuation of Events.- Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of “Semantic Parameter”.- Progressives, States and Backgrounding.- An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew.- On Generic and Existential Bare Plurals and the Classification of Predicates.- Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-scope Indefinites?.- The Origins of Telicity.- Plurals and Maximalization.- Events in the Semantics of Collectivizing Adverbials.- Stativity and Theticity.- Cognate Objects as Reflections of Davidsonian Event Arguments.- Subject-oriented Adverbs are Thematically Dependent.- Aspect Shift.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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