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On the compositional nature of states /
This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusing on evidence from both verbal and adjectival predicates, it argues that quantization forms the basis of a unified theory of aktionsart and provides a th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 188. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the Compositional Nature of States; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of tables; List of figures; Introduction; 1.1 The state of aktionsart; 1.2 Stage-level and individual-level predicates; 1.2.1 Stativity; 1.2.2 Existential interpretation; 1.2.2.1 There-constructions; 1.2.2.2 Existential interpretation of subjects; 1.2.2.3 A note on the aspectual nature of existential interpretation; 1.2.3 Restriction on locative and temporal modification; 1.2.4 Lifetime effects; 1.3 Two observations for stage-level/individual-level predicates.