
Events, Arguments, and Aspects
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- Events, Arguments, and Aspects
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Events, arguments, and aspects
- 1. Two issues in the semantics of verbs
- 2. Arguments
- 2.1 Theories of argument structure
- 2.2 Introductory comments on the articles
- 3. Time, eventities, and aspect
- 3.1 Time
- 3.2 Eventities
- 3.3 Aspect
- 3.4 Introductory comments on the articles
- 4. Brief note on notation
- Bibliography
- part i Verb meaning and argument structure
- 1. Ergativity and the object-oriented representation of verb meaning
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The object-oriented paradigm
- 3. Polysemy and argument roles
- 4. Ergativity
- 5. Correlates of the ergative/absolutive distinction
- 5.1 Bondedness to the verb
- 5.2 Control phenomena
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 2. Grammatical metaphors and there-insertion in Danish
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Grammatical metaphors
- 3. Unaccusativity
- 4. The position of the logical subject
- 5. Aktionsart and event structure
- 6. The there-insertion constraint
- 7. Danish transitive verbs in there-constructions(
- 8. Formal analysis of transitive verbs
- 9. Arguments and topology(
- 10. Passives
- 11. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 3. Abstract objects of verbs
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Verbs and their arguments
- 1.2 Classifying linguistic signs
- 2. Explaining the theory
- 2.1 The traditional analysis
- 2.2 Types and polymorphism(
- 2.3 Representation by abstract objects
- 2.4 Identifying objects(
- 3. Types and representation
- 3.1 Types as data types
- 3.2 Uniqueness and elimination
- 4. Comprehension
- 4.1 Problems with functions
- 4.2 More problems
- 4.3 A way out (?)
- 5. Historical remarks
- 6. Appendix: Ackermann's original system
- 6.1 Axioms of propositional logic
- 6.2 Axioms of predicate logic
- 6.3 Axioms for identity
- 6.4 Axioms of class theory
- 6.5 Rules
- Bibliography
- 4. Object-orientation and the semantics of verbs
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Object-orientation and its relevance to semantics
- 3. Modeling object-oriented: Unified Modeling Language (UML)
- 4. Verbal meaning
- 5. Object-oriented representation of verbal meaning: The basics
- 6. Multi-layered architecture
- 7. Eventity classes
- Bibliography
- Part II. Aspect and aktionsart
- 5. Aspectual coercion and eventuality structure
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A survey of eventuality structure
- 2.1 Aspectuality and eventuality structure
- 2.2 Sortal structure of eventualities
- 2.3 Intersortal structure of eventualities
- 3. A system of aspectual coercion
- 3.1 Coercion by durative adverbials
- 3.2 Coercion by time-span adverbials
- 3.3 Coercion by time-point adverbials
- 3.4 Coercion by the progressive
- 3.5 A two-stage approach: Aspectual coercion as pragmatic enrichment
- 4. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 6. Phases in verbal semantics
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Phasal verb research and the phasal verb interface complex
- 1.2 Classical and medieval reasoning on phasal verbs and its connection with modern theories
- 2. Modern approaches to phasal verbs
- 2.1 Phasal verbs and the notion of boundedness (Jackendoff)
- 2.2 Explaining polysemy and underspecification in phasal verbs (Pustejovsky)
- 2.3 Interval semantics and phasal verbs (Partee & Bennett)
- 3. A model for the description of phasal verbs
- 3.1 Simple phase semantics: SPS
- 3.2 Conceptual completeness: CC
- 3.3 Time condition: TC
- 3.4 Restricted categorical selection: RCS
- 3.5 Participant reconstruction: PR
- 4. Conclusion and perspectives
- Bibliography
- 7. How light are aspectual meanings? A study of the relation between light verbs in Ukrainian
- 1. Theoretical and methodological preliminaries
- 1.1 Grammatical aspects vs. aktionsarten
- 1.2 Lexical aspects
- 1.3 Definitions and diagnostic tests for lexical aspects
- 1.4 Aspectual coercion
- 1.5 Light verbs
- 1.6 Two functional approaches to grammar
- 1.7 Dictionary definitions and semantic knowledge
- 2. Empirical base and methodological procedure
- 2.1 Some observations about the definitions in SUM (2004)
- 2.2 Analytical procedure
- 3. Types of light verbs
- 3.1 Lightness vs. frequency
- 3.2 Compensators, modifiers and complicators
- 3.3 Semantic relations between light verbs as defining units
- 3.4 Semantic types of objects of light verbs
- 3.5 Light verbs and lexical aspects
- 4. Vendlerian lexical aspects
- 4.1 States
- 4.2 Activities
- 4.3 Achievements
- 4.4 Accomplishments
- 5. Conclusions: Light verbs, aktionsarten, and lexical aspects
- Bibliography
- 8. The 'say, do' verb in Nyulnyul, Warrwa, and other Nyulnyulan languages is monosemic
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Morphology
- 3. {-JI} 'say' as a simple verb
- 4. {-Ji} 'say' in compound verb constructions
- 5. On the meaning of {-JI} 'say'
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 9. Predicate classes: A study in compositional semantics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Discussing the state of the art
- 3. What are the criterial features for classification?
- 3.1 States and properties
- 3.2 Events
- 3.3 Durativity
- 3.4 Resultativity
- 3.5 Perfectivity and imperfectivity
- 3.6 A short note on ambiguity and underspecification
- 3.7 Punctuality
- 3.8 Summary
- 4. Classification according to verbal aspect and elementary predicates
- 4.1 Descriptive classification based on verbal aspect and argument structure
- 4.2 Resultativity and causativity
- 4.3 Resultativity without BECOME
- 4.4 Lexical entries for all classes
- 4.5 Some more examples
- 5. Prospectus: Predicate classes, tense and aspect
- 5.1 "Tense" is a characteristic function
- 5.2 Form and interpretation of inflection
- 5.3 Sentential aspect, temporal adverbials and the German perfect tense
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of objects
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