Adverbial Modification

Interval Semantics and Its Rivals

M.J. Cresswell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

1985 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-90-277-2060-3 (ISBN)

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Adverbial modification is probably one of the least understood areas of linguistics. The essays in this volume all address the problem of how to give an analysis of adverbial modifiers within truth-conditional semantics. Chapters I-VI provide analyses of particular modifiers within a possible worlds framework, and were written between 1974 and 1981. Original publication details of these chapters may be found on p. vi. Of these, all but Chapter I make essential use of the idea that the time reference involved in tensed sentences should be a time interval rather than a single instant. The final chapter (Chapter VII) was written especially for this volume and investigates the question of how the 'situation semantics' recently devised by Jon Barwise and John Perry, as a rival to possible-worlds semantics, might deal with adverbs. In addition I have included an appendix to Chapter III and an introduction which links all the chapters together.

I / Adverbs and Events.- II / Adverbs of Space and Time.- III / Interval Semantics and Logical Words.- Appendix to Chapter III (1985).- IV / Prepositions and Points of View.- V / Interval Semantics for Some Event Expressions.- VI / Adverbs of Causation.- VII / Adverbial Modification in Situation Semantics.- Bibliographical Index.- General Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.1985
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; 28
Zusatzinfo	232 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
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ISBN-10	90-277-2060-6 / 9027720606
ISBN-13	978-90-277-2060-3 / 9789027720603
Zustand	Neuware