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Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications / ed. by Angelika Wöllstein, Claudia Maienborn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguistische Arbeiten ; 501Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, [2011]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783484305014
  • 9783110913798
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P281 .E945 2005
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Events – states – causation -- The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME -- Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects -- Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations -- Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish -- Sentence connection as quantificational structure -- Section II: Event nominals -- Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation -- Referential arguments of nouns and verbs -- Section III: Events in composition -- Building resultatives -- Reconciling “possessor” datives and “beneficiary” datives – Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German -- Event arguments and modal verbs -- Section IV: Measuring events -- Types of degrees and types of event structures -- Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items -- Semantic properties of split topicalization in German -- Author index -- Subject index
Summary: 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 events have received renewed attention. This collection of articles provides new evidence for the virtually ubiquitous presence of event arguments in linguistic structure and sheds new light on their nature. The volume is organized into four sections: Events - states - causation; Event nominals; Events in composition; Measuring events.

i-iv -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Events – states – causation -- The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME -- Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects -- Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations -- Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish -- Sentence connection as quantificational structure -- Section II: Event nominals -- Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation -- Referential arguments of nouns and verbs -- Section III: Events in composition -- Building resultatives -- Reconciling “possessor” datives and “beneficiary” datives – Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German -- Event arguments and modal verbs -- Section IV: Measuring events -- Types of degrees and types of event structures -- Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items -- Semantic properties of split topicalization in German -- Author index -- Subject index

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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 events have received renewed attention. This collection of articles provides new evidence for the virtually ubiquitous presence of event arguments in linguistic structure and sheds new light on their nature. The volume is organized into four sections: Events - states - causation; Event nominals; Events in composition; Measuring events.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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