Events and Plurality
The Jerusalem Lectures
Published on 30. November 2001
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Paperback/Softback
396 pages
978-0-7923-6569-3 (ISBN)
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JERUSALEM LECTURES In 1992, I was a Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew Univer sity of Jerusalem. In the context of this, Edit Doron asked me to present a series of weekly evening lectures. The idea was that I would be talking about my own current research on plurality in an event based theory, without the restraints that a nonnal seminar fonnat would im pose: i.e. the idea was that I would actually get to the part where I would talk about my own work. At the same time, Edit added, it would be nice if, rather than just presupposing or presenting a neo-Davidsonian framework to develop my analysis of plurality, I could provide a more general setting of the problems by discussing in some depth the archi tecture of event arguments and thematic roles. In particular, Terry Parsons' book, Par sons 1990, had appeared relatively recently, and there was real interest among the audience in discussing Parsons' arguments for events and roles.
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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1 s/w Abbildung
396 p. 1 illus.
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Height: 233 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-6569-3 (9780792365693)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-4359-2
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Person
Fred Landman is Professor of Semantics in the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University.He received his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam. He was Associate Professor of Semantics at Cornell University before moving to Tel Aviv. He is the recipient of a Humboldt Foundation Research Award. Landman has published many articles on a wide range of topics in semantics, including well known articles on groups and plurality, polarity sensitive any, the progressive, the adjectival theory of indefinites, and the mass-count distinction. He is the author of four previous books: Towards a Theory of Information, Structures for Semantics, Events and Plurality, and Indefinites and the Type of Sets.
Content
Lecture One: Arguments for the Davidsonian Theory.- 1.1. The Davidsonian Theory.- 1.2. The Modifier Argument.- 1.3. Modification of States.- 1.4. Explicit Reference to Events.- 1.5. Explicit Reference to States.- 1.6. Perception Reports.- Lecture Two: The Neo-Davisonian Theory, The Unique Role Requirement and the Language of Events.- 2.1. Finegrainedness and the Unique Role Requirement.- 2.2. The Formal Theory.- Lecture Three: The Neo-Davidsonian Theory and Its Rivals.- 3.1. Passive Sensitive Adverbials.- 3.2. Passives.- 3.3. Multiple Roles.- 3.4. The Argument Extension Alternative.- Lecture Four: Scha's Theory of Plurality.- 4.1. Plurality Structures.- 4.2. Scha's language of Plurality.- 4.3. Scha's Grammar.- 4.4. Plurality in Scha's Theory.- 4.5. The Interpretations of Numerical Noun Phrases.- 4.6. The Analysis of Cumulative Readings.- Lecture Five: Distributivity, Collectivity and Cumulativity.- 5.1. The Language of Plurality.- 5.2. Link's Theory of Plurality.- 5.3. Distributivity in Landman 1989A.- 5.4. Thematic and Non-Thematic Roles.- Lecture Six: Plural Roles, Scope and Event Types.- 6.1. The Language of Events and Plurality.- 6.2. Collectivity and Distributivity.- 6.3. Three Theories of Scope and Plurality.- 6.4. Cover Readings.- Lecture Seven: Maximalization on Event Types.- 7.1. ExactlyImplicatures.- 7.2. Scalar Triggers and Maximalization Triggers.- 7.3. The Maximalization Conglomerate.- 7.4. Local Assertions and Core Implicatures.- 7.5. Tracing the Origins of the Ideas.- 7.6. Maximalization in Mixed Cases.- Appendix: Defining Upward and Downward Entailingness for Cardinality Relations.- Lecture Eight: Maximalization on Argument State Types.- 8.1. Maximalization and Scope.- 8.2. Properties and Argument State Types.- 8.3. The Scope Theory.- 8.4.Maximalization on Argument State Types.- 8.5. Readings Predicted by the Scope Theory.- 8.6. Shifting Scopal Relations to Plural Argument State Types.- Lecture Nine: Against Binary Quantifiers.- 9.1. Binary Quantifiers: Some Introductory Methodological Moaning.- 9.2. Binary Quantifiers Versus Binary Determiners..- 9.3. Against Binary Determiners.- 9.4. Branching Quantification.- 9.5. Against Branching Quantifiers.- 9.6. Unary Quantifiers: Some Final Methodological Moaning.- Lecture Ten: Dependent Event Types.- 10.1. Adverbial Distributivy..- 10.2. Dependency Relations.- 10.3. Yellow Pad Problems.- References.