| Description |
1 online resource (295 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Papers of an international working conference held Aug. 1995 in Trento, Italy, which was supported by the Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e tecnologica (IRST) of the Istituto trentino di cultura (ITC). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
The view that an adequate semantics of natural language calls for some theory of events has been a focus of considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. This book offers an up-to-date indication of this debate. |
| Contents |
Contributors; 1. Events and Event Talk: An Introduction; 2. On Events in Linguistic Semantics; 3. Underlying States and Time Travel; 4. Do Events Recur?; 5. Causation, Contexts, and Event Individuation; 6. Events, Facts, Propositions, and Evolutive Anaphora; 7. Chronoscopes: The Dynamic Representation of Facts and Events; 8. Events as Dividuals: Aspectual Composition and Event Semantics; 9. Word Order and Quantification over Times; 10. Aspects, Adverbs, and Events: Habituality vs. Perfectivity; Author Index; Subject Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Semantics -- Congresses.
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Semantics. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Congresses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Events (Philosophy) -- Congresses.
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Events (Philosophy) |
| Indexed Term |
Semantics - Congresses. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Congressen (vorm)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Higginbotham, James.
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Pianesi, Fabio.
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Varzi, Achille C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Speaking of events. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195128079 (DLC) 99016829 |
| ISBN |
0585394342 (electronic book) |
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9780585394343 (electronic book) |
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9780195128079 (Cloth) |
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0195128079 (Cloth) |
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1280472030 |
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9781280472039 |
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9780195128116 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0195128117 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781602563513 (electronic book) |
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1602563519 (electronic book) |
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0195351924 |
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9780195351927 |
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0195128117 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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