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Event arguments : foundations and applications /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maienborn, Claudia, Wöllstein-Leisten, Angelika
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2005.
Colección:Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 501.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Maienborn, Claudia / Wöllstein, Angelika
  • Section I: Events
  • states
  • causation
  • The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME / Bierwisch, Manfred
  • Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects / Engelberg, Stefan
  • Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations / Mittwoch, Anita
  • Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish / Gonzàlez-Vilbazo, Kay-Eduardo / Remberger, Eva-Maria
  • Sentence connection as quantificational structure / Lohnstein, Horst
  • Section II: Event nominals
  • Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation / Alexiadou, Artemis
  • Referential arguments of nouns and verbs / Kaufmann, Ingrid
  • Section III: Events in composition
  • Building resultatives / Kratzer, Angelika
  • Reconciling "possessor" datives and "beneficiary" datives
  • Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German / Hole, Daniel
  • Event arguments and modal verbs / Abraham, Werner
  • Section IV: Measuring events
  • Types of degrees and types of event structures / Caudal, Patrick / Nicolas, David
  • Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items / Eckardt, Regine
  • Semantic properties of split topicalization in German / Nakanishi, Kimiko
  • Author index
  • Subject index