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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.