Author | Landman, Fred. author |
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Title | Events and Plurality [electronic resource] : The Jerusalem Lectures / by Fred Landman |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4359-2 |
Descript | 396 p. 1 illus. online resource |
Lecture One: Arguments for the Davidsonian Theory -- 1.1. The Davidsonian Theory -- 1.2. The Modifier Argument -- 1.3. Modification of States -- 1.4. Explicit Reference to Events -- 1.5. Explicit Reference to States -- 1.6. Perception Reports -- Lecture Two: The Neo-Davisonian Theory, The Unique Role Requirement and the Language of Events -- 2.1. Finegrainedness and the Unique Role Requirement -- 2.2. The Formal Theory -- Lecture Three: The Neo-Davidsonian Theory and Its Rivals -- 3.1. Passive Sensitive Adverbials -- 3.2. Passives -- 3.3. Multiple Roles -- 3.4. The Argument Extension Alternative -- Lecture Four: Schaโs Theory of Plurality -- 4.1. Plurality Structures -- 4.2. Schaโs language of Plurality -- 4.3. Schaโs Grammar -- 4.4. Plurality in Schaโs Theory -- 4.5. The Interpretations of Numerical Noun Phrases -- 4.6. The Analysis of Cumulative Readings -- Lecture Five: Distributivity, Collectivity and Cumulativity -- 5.1. The Language of Plurality -- 5.2. Linkโs Theory of Plurality -- 5.3. Distributivity in Landman 1989A -- 5.4. Thematic and Non-Thematic Roles -- Lecture Six: Plural Roles, Scope and Event Types -- 6.1. The Language of Events and Plurality -- 6.2. Collectivity and Distributivity -- 6.3. Three Theories of Scope and Plurality -- 6.4. Cover Readings -- Lecture Seven: Maximalization on Event Types -- 7.1. ExactlyImplicatures -- 7.2. Scalar Triggers and Maximalization Triggers -- 7.3. The Maximalization Conglomerate -- 7.4. Local Assertions and Core Implicatures -- 7.5. Tracing the Origins of the Ideas -- 7.6. Maximalization in Mixed Cases -- Appendix: Defining Upward and Downward Entailingness for Cardinality Relations -- Lecture Eight: Maximalization on Argument State Types -- 8.1. Maximalization and Scope -- 8.2. Properties and Argument State Types -- 8.3. The Scope Theory -- 8.4. Maximalization on Argument State Types -- 8.5. Readings Predicted by the Scope Theory -- 8.6. Shifting Scopal Relations to Plural Argument State Types -- Lecture Nine: Against Binary Quantifiers -- 9.1. Binary Quantifiers: Some Introductory Methodological Moaning -- 9.2. Binary Quantifiers Versus Binary Determiners. -- 9.3. Against Binary Determiners -- 9.4. Branching Quantification -- 9.5. Against Branching Quantifiers -- 9.6. Unary Quantifiers: Some Final Methodological Moaning -- Lecture Ten: Dependent Event Types -- 10.1. Adverbial Distributivy. -- 10.2. Dependency Relations -- 10.3. Yellow Pad Problems -- References