edited by James Higginbotham, Fabio Pianesi, Achille C. Varzi.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
1 online resource (295 pages)
Papers of an international working conference held Aug. 1995 in Trento, Italy, which was supported by the Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e tecnologica (IRST) of the Istituto trentino di cultura (ITC).
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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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.
Speaking of events.
0195128079
Events (Philosophy), Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general, Congresses.
Semantics, Congresses.
Events (Philosophy)
Events (Philosophy)
Filosofische aspecten.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Semantics.