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Adverbial Modification

Interval Semantics and Its Rivals

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. M. J. Cresswell

    1. Department of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 28)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 1-12

  3. Adverbs and Events

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 13-39

  4. Adverbs of Space and Time

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 41-66

  5. Interval Semantics and Logical Words

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 67-95

  6. Prepositions and Points of View

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 97-141

  7. Interval Semantics for Some Event Expressions

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 143-171

  8. Adverbs of Causation

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 173-192

  9. Adverbial Modification in Situation Semantics

    • M. J. Cresswell
    Pages 193-220

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 221-231
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About this book

Adverbial modification is probably one of the least understood areas of linguistics. The essays in this volume all address the problem of how to give an analysis of adverbial modifiers within truth-conditional semantics. Chapters I-VI provide analyses of particular modifiers within a possible­ worlds framework, and were written between 1974 and 1981. Original publication details of these chapters may be found on p. vi. Of these, all but Chapter I make essential use of the idea that the time reference involved in tensed sentences should be a time interval rather than a single instant. The final chapter (Chapter VII) was written especially for this volume and investigates the question of how the 'situation semantics' recently devised by Jon Barwise and John Perry, as a rival to possible-worlds semantics, might deal with adverbs. In addition I have included an appendix to Chapter III and an introduction which links all the chapters together.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    M. J. Cresswell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adverbial Modification

  • Book Subtitle: Interval Semantics and Its Rivals

  • Authors: M. J. Cresswell

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5414-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2060-3Published: 31 December 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5414-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 232

  • Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language

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