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Speaking of events /

The view that an adequate semantics of natural language calls for some theory of events has been a focus of considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. This book offers an up-to-date indication of this debate.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Higginbotham, James, Pianesi, Fabio, Varzi, Achille C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; 1. Events and Event Talk: An Introduction; 2. On Events in Linguistic Semantics; 3. Underlying States and Time Travel; 4. Do Events Recur?; 5. Causation, Contexts, and Event Individuation; 6. Events, Facts, Propositions, and Evolutive Anaphora; 7. Chronoscopes: The Dynamic Representation of Facts and Events; 8. Events as Dividuals: Aspectual Composition and Event Semantics; 9. Word Order and Quantification over Times; 10. Aspects, Adverbs, and Events: Habituality vs. Perfectivity; Author Index; Subject Index.