the interaction between temporal and atemporal structure /
First Statement of Responsibility
Henk J. Verkuyl.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY, USA :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1993.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 393 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
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24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
Volume Designation
64
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-385) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Issues of Compositionality -- The Plus-principle -- Inner and outer aspect -- [[plus or minus]ADD TO] and [[plus or minus]SQA] -- Aspectual asymmetry -- The scope of this study -- Aspectual classes and aspectual composition -- Vendler's time schemata -- Continuous Tense Criteria -- Definiteness Criteria -- On the alleged punctual nature of Achievements -- Mourelatos' merger of Vendler and Kenny -- Dowty's reductionist approach -- Hoeksema's cross-classification -- Carlson's extension -- Ter Meulen's hierarchy -- Moens' temporal ontology -- Noun Phrase Structure -- The tools of generalized quantification -- Extensional type logic: EL -- Generalized quantification -- In search of SQA -- SQA: Boundedness of A[characters not reproducible]B? -- Constraints on Quantifiers -- Is SQA a constraint on Quantifiers? -- Properness and terminativity -- Numerals and quantifiers: one level up -- NP = [Det [Num ... N[superscript 0]]] -- [N[superscript 0]] = [olash]: Strawson vs. Russell -- Some problems of prenominal NP structure -- Det-num-problems -- Problems with all, the and every -- Indefinite and definite bare plurals -- Determiner structure -- A problem with [phi] -- Scalarity, partitions and pseudo-partitions -- Plug -- Multiple quantification -- All and every again -- Negation -- Some explorative issues -- X-bar theory and Plug -- Bareness again -- Mass terms -- Temporal Structure -- Homogeneity -- Homogeneity and truth at intervals -- Three problems for Dowty -- Homogeneity and the alleged Imperfective Paradox.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Aspect.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Quantifiers.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Temporal constructions.