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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; 188
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 188.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusing on evidence from both verbal and adjectival predicates, it argues that quantization forms the basis of a unified theory of aktionsart and provides a theory in which the availability of an existential interpretation in states is, like the telicity of events, determined compositionally by the predicate and the quantization of its internal argument. Quantization is further argued to reflect the internal temporal constitution of the stages of an individual which is tied to the generation of an existential interpretation. This monograph will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists who are specifically concerned with compositional approaches to eventualities, and to those who have a more general interest in the role linguistic theory can play in determining core properties of the mind. |
| Contents |
On the Compositional Nature of States; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of tables; List of figures; Introduction; 1.1 The state of aktionsart; 1.2 Stage-level and individual-level predicates; 1.2.1 Stativity; 1.2.2 Existential interpretation; 1.2.2.1 There-constructions; 1.2.2.2 Existential interpretation of subjects; 1.2.2.3 A note on the aspectual nature of existential interpretation; 1.2.3 Restriction on locative and temporal modification; 1.2.4 Lifetime effects; 1.3 Two observations for stage-level/individual-level predicates. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement. |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9789027274168 (electronic book) |
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9027274169 (electronic book) |
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128076922X |
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9781280769221 |
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9789027255716 |
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9027255717 |
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