
Adverbial Modification
Interval Semantics and Its Rivals
M.J. Cresswell(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 1. November 1985
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-90-277-2059-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Adverbial modification is probably one of the least understood areas of linguistics. The essays in this volume all address the problem of how to give an analysis of adverbial modifiers within truth-conditional semantics. Chapters I-VI provide analyses of particular modifiers within a possible worlds framework, and were written between 1974 and 1981. Original publication details of these chapters may be found on p. vi. Of these, all but Chapter I make essential use of the idea that the time reference involved in tensed sentences should be a time interval rather than a single instant. The final chapter (Chapter VII) was written especially for this volume and investigates the question of how the 'situation semantics' recently devised by Jon Barwise and John Perry, as a rival to possible-worlds semantics, might deal with adverbs. In addition I have included an appendix to Chapter III and an introduction which links all the chapters together.
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Series
Edition
1985
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
1150 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-2059-7 (9789027720597)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-5414-4
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Content
I / Adverbs and Events.- II / Adverbs of Space and Time.- III / Interval Semantics and Logical Words.- Appendix to Chapter III (1985).- IV / Prepositions and Points of View.- V / Interval Semantics for Some Event Expressions.- VI / Adverbs of Causation.- VII / Adverbial Modification in Situation Semantics.- Bibliographical Index.- General Index.