Events in the semantics of English : a study in subatomic semantics

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Analytical Table of Contents = ⅸ
• Preface = xvii
• PARTⅠ The Basic Account = 1
• Chapter 1 Introduction = 3
• 1.1 Background = 3
• 1.2 Subatomic Semantics = 8
• 1.3 Methodology = 9
• 1.4 Logical Form = 11
• Chapter 2 The Evidence in Favor of Underlying Events = 13
• 2.1 The First Kind of Evidence: The Logic of Modifiers = 13
• 2.2 A Second Kind of Evidence: The Logic of Perceptual Idioms = 15
• 2.3 Implicit and Explicit Talk about Events = 17
• 2.4 Explicit Quantification over Events = 18
• 2.5 Robustness = 19
• Chapter 3 Event Ontology and Logical Form = 20
• 3.1 Events, States, and Processes = 20
• 3.2 Ontological Assumptions and Logical Forms = 21
• 3.3 Tenses and Times = 27
• 3.4 More Details about Tenses = 28
• 3.5 States, Propositions, and Facts = 31
• 3.6 Tests for Distinctions among the Categories = 34
• Chapter 4 Modifiers = 40
• 4.1 Classification of Modifiers = 40
• 4.2 Attributives = 42
• 4.3 Group Readings, Scope, and Conjunctions = 45
• 4.4 Alternatives to the Underlying Event Account = 50
• 4.5 Distinguishing Kinds of Modifiers = 62
• Chapter 5 Thematic Roles = 68
• 5.1 Thematic Roles in Grammatical Theory = 68
• 5.2 Thematic Roles with Underlying Events = 72
• 5.3 The Basic Account = 73
• 5.4 Enhancements = 77
• 5.5 Objections to the Use of Thematic Roles = 83
• 5.6 Passive Sentences = 91
• 5.7 The Utility of Thematic Relations = 93
• 5.8 Cross-Verbal Thematic Roles = 99
• Chapter 6 Causatives and Inchoatives = 105
• 6.1 Introduction = 105
• 6.2 Causatives in the Generative Semantics Tradition = 107
• 6.3 An Analysis of Causatives in Terms of Events = 109
• 6.4 Objections to the Analysis of Causatives = 112
• 6.5 An Incorrect Analysis Based on Optional Thematic Relations = 117
• 6.6 Inchoatives = 118
• 6.7 Causative-Inchoatives = 120
• 6.8 Modifiers of Events and Modifiers of States = 120
• 6.9 An Alternative Version of the Theory = 124
• Chapter 7 Explicit Discourse about Events = 127
• 7.1 Basic Principles = 127
• 7.2 Nominal and Verbal Gerundives = 132
• 7.3 Intransitive Event Verbs: 'Occur', 'Happen', 'Take Place' = 135
• 7.4 Event Causatives = 138
• 7.5 Event Perceptions = 140
• 7.6 Transitive Event Verbs = 140
• PARTⅡ Reflections and Refinements = 143
• Chapter 8 Metaphysical Issues = 145
• 8.1 The Nature of' Events and States = 145
• 8.2 Reductionistic Accounts of Events and States = 148
• 8.3 Event Identity: Fine-Grained and Coarse-Grained Accounts = 153
• 8.4 Arguments from the Philosophical Literature = 159
• 8.5 Defenses of the Coarse-Grained Version Involving Postulation of Underlying Basic Actions = 161
• 8.6 Defenses of the Coarse-Grained Version Involving Postulation of Universal Causative Analyses = 163
• Chapter 9 The Progressive in English: Events, States, and Processes = 167
• 9.1 History of the Problem: The "Imperfective Paradox" = 167
• 9.2 An Analysis of the Progressive Using Events = 170
• 9.3 Absent Processes and Unfinished Objects = 172
• 9.4 Interval Semantics: Bennett's Refined Analysis = 179
• 9.5 Processes and the Progressive = 182
• Chapter 10 States = 186
• 10.1 Introduction = 186
• 10.2 State Verbs = 188
• 10.3 Adjectives = 190
• 10.4 Locatives = 194
• 10.5 Explicit Reference to and Quantification over States = 198
• 10.6 Do Nouns have Underlying States? = 200
• 10.7 Participants of StateS = 202
• 10.8 States in Arithmetic = 203
• Chapter 11 Tenses and "Temporal" Adverbials = 207
• 11.1 Overview of Tenses and "Temporal" Adverbials = 207
• 11.2 Frame Adverbials = 211
• 11.3 Tenses = 212
• 11.4 Constraints on Times = 215
• 11.5 Temporal Modifiers of Events = 221
• 11.6 Frequency Adverbials and Subordinate Clauses = 224
• 11.7 Interactions = 227
• Chapter 12 The Semantics of the Perfect and the Progressive in Modern and Old English = 229
• 12.1 The Perfect in Modern English: Data = 229
• 12.2 The Semantical Framework of Underlying Events andn States = 231
• 12.3 The Progressive and Perfect in Modern English = 233
• 12.4 Participles as Adjectives = 236
• 12.5 The Progressive and the Perfect in Old English = 239
• 12.6 Unsolved Problems = 246
• 12.7 Skeptical Reflections on Participles = 250
• 12.8 Temporal Adverbials = 253
• Chapter 13 Eventlish-A Fragment of English = 257
• 13.1 Introduction = 257
• 13.2 The Templates = 259
• 13.3 The Lexicon = 263
• 13.4 Miscellaneous Matters = 270
• 13.5 Simple Passives = 272
• 13.6 Perception Sentences = 273
• 13.7 Inchoatives = 275
• 13.8 Resultative Tags = 276
• 13.9 Causatives = 277
• 13.10 Higher-Order Constructions with Causative Verbs = 278
• 13.11 Higher-Order Verbs = 279
• 13.12 Copular Sentences = 279
• Afterword = 281
• Notes = 282
• Bibliography = 320
• Index = 329