Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian

Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8153-2846-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in compositional semantics, and what a syntax/semantics map which incorporated such objects might look like.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bayer, Samuel L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Events; Chapter 3 Events, Quantification and Plurality; Chapter 4 Davidsonian Semantics; Chapter 5 The Devil in the Davidsonian Details; Chapter 6 Neo-Davidsonian Semantics; Chapter 7 Attempting to Justify Neo-Davidsonian Composition; Chapter 8 Argument Accessibility and Events; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Louis Bayer