Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian

ISBN-13: 9780815328469 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 312 str.

Samuel L. Bayer;Samuel L. Bayer

Opis

Contrasts the Davidsonian strategy of sentence semantics, which treats verbs as sets of ordered sequences of participants then extends the sequences to embrace the swell event; with the neo-Davidsonian, which considers verbs as sets of events and associates participants with these events through rel

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Events; Chapter 3 Events, Quantification and Plurality; Chapter 4 Davidsonian Semantics; Chapter 5 The Devil in the Davidsonian Details; Chapter 6 Neo-Davidsonian Semantics; Chapter 7 Attempting to Justify Neo-Davidsonian Composition; Chapter 8 Argument Accessibility and Events; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

O autorze

Samuel Louis Bayer