On the common format of eventives and too-comparatives
- Should events be conceived of as primitive or should they be decomposed into more basic elements with certain syntax? This talk presents new evidence for the latter view: If events are represented as contradictory propositional meanings representing their pre- and post states, a uniform analysis of certain eventive and certain too- comparative constructions is possible; this is wanted given striking parallels between the two types of structure. The analysis goes some way, among other, toward explaining ‘repetetive/restitutive’ asymmetries familiar from eventive constructions (von Stechow 1996) but similarly arising in too- comparative constructions.
Author: | Patrick BrandtGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-38867 |
ISBN: | 90-9019356-1 |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9 |
Publisher: | Nijmegen |
Place of publication: | Nijmegen Centre of Semantics |
Editor: | Emar Maier, Corien Bary, Janneke Huitink |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2015/07/16 |
GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Englisch; Semantik; Syntax; Thematische Relation |
Page Number: | 567 |
First Page: | 44 |
Last Page: | 56 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |