Events and Plurality: The Jerusalem Lectures (Paperback or Softback)

Landman, Fred

ISBN 10: 0792365690 / ISBN 13: 9780792365693

Editore: Springer 11/30/2001, 2001

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• Titolo: Events and Plurality: The Jerusalem Lectures (Paperback or Softback)
• Editore: Springer 11/30/2001
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792365690
• ISBN 13: 9780792365693
• Rilegatura: Paperback or Softback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: Book

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At the same time, Edit added, it would be nice if, rather than just presupposing or presenting a neo-Davidsonian framework to develop my analysis of plurality, I could provide a more general setting of the problems by discussing in some depth the archi­ tecture of event arguments and thematic roles.

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Introduction. Lecture One: Arguments for the Davidsonian Theory. Lecture Two: The Neo-Davidsonian Theory, the Unique Role Requirement and the Language of Events. Lecture Three: The Neo-Davidsonian Theory and Its Rivals. Lecture Four: Scha's Theory of Plurality. Lecture Five: Distributivity, Collectivity and Cumulativity. Lecture Six: Plural Roles, Scope and Event Types. Lecture Seven: Maximalization on Event Types. Lecture Eight: Maximalization on Argument State Types. Lecture Nine: Against Binary Quantifiers. Lecture Ten: Dependent Event Types. References.