Samuel L. Bayer

Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian

Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in compositional semantics, and what a syntax/semantics map which incorporated such objects might look like.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9781138971509
• ISBN-10: 1138971502
• Artikelnr.: 57050402

Autorenporträt

Samuel Louis Bayer

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Events
Chapter 3 Events, Quantification and Plurality
Chapter 4 Davidsonian Semantics
Chapter 5 The Devil in the Davidsonian Details
Chapter 6 Neo-Davidsonian Semantics
Chapter 7 Attempting to Justify Neo-Davidsonian Composition
Chapter 8 Argument Accessibility and Events
Chapter 9 Conclusion