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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820642903321

Titolo

Event arguments : foundations and applications / / edited by Claudia Maienborn and Angelika Wollstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tbingen, : Max Niemeyer, 2005

ISBN

3-11-091379-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 501

Classificazione

ET 480

Altri autori (Persone)

MaienbornClaudia

Wollstein-LeistenAngelika

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb

Semantics

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The present volume grew out of a workshop ... that the editors organized in February 26-28, 2003 in Munich".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Maienborn, Claudia / Wöllstein, Angelika -- Section I: Events - states - causation -- The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME / Bierwisch, Manfred -- Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects / Engelberg, Stefan -- Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations / Mittwoch, Anita -- Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish / Gonzàlez-Vilbazo, Kay-Eduardo / Remberger, Eva-Maria -- Sentence connection as quantificational structure / Lohnstein, Horst -- Section II: Event nominals -- Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation / Alexiadou, Artemis -- Referential arguments of nouns and verbs / Kaufmann, Ingrid -- Section III: Events in composition -- Building resultatives / Kratzer, Angelika -- Reconciling "possessor" datives and "beneficiary" datives - Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German / Hole, Daniel -- Event arguments and modal verbs / Abraham, Werner -- Section IV: Measuring events -- Types of degrees and types of event structures / Caudal, Patrick / Nicolas, David -- Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items / Eckardt, Regine -- Semantic properties of split topicalization in German / Nakanishi, Kimiko -- Author index -- Subject index



Sommario/riassunto

Since entering the stage, Davidsonian event arguments have taken on a central role in linguistic theorizing. Recent years have seen a continuous extension of possible applications for them, not only in semantics but also in syntax. At the same time questions concerning the ontological status of events have received renewed attention. This collection of articles provides new evidence for the virtually ubiquitous presence of event arguments in linguistic structure and sheds new light on their nature. The volume is organized into four sections: Events - states - causation; Event nominals; Events in composition; Measuring events.