In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen original studies by leading scholars in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface, covering a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. The papers extensively address the following topics, among others: event arguments and thematic argument structure; the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions; events and the distinction between stage and individual level predicates; the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scope relations, the mass/count distinction, and propositional attitudes.

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Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Susan Rothstein

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Book Title: Events and Grammar
Editors: Susan Rothstein
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4940-2Published: 31 July 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0289-2Published: 30 November 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3969-4Published: 01 December 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 386
Topics: Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics, Philosophy of Language

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