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Predicates and Temporal Arguments

Predicates and Temporal Arguments

Fernald, Theodore B.

Hardcover

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0195114353
ISBN13: 9780195114355
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 10 2000
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
A distinction is made in formal semantics between stage-level predicates, predicates that describe the general state of a noun, and individual-level predicates, predicates that specify the specific properties of a noun. Fernald investigates various contexts in which this distinction is traditionally said to come into play. His aim is to show that the effects displayed are not uniform, and that the differences between the analyses proposed in the literature arise from the authors considering different subsets of data that they take to exemplyify the core meaning of the stage/individual distinction. Fernald presents alternatives and extensions that shed light on the limitations of previous theories, as well as making original observations about important aspects of the topic, including coercion, and perceptual reports vs. other phenomena.

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