Events in the Semantics of English: A Study in Subatomic Semantics: A Study of Subatomic Semantics (Current Studies in Linguistics) - Softcover

Parsons, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262660938 ISBN 13: 9780262660938

Verlag: MIT Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

This extended investigation of the semantics of event (and state) sentences in their various forms is a major contribution to the semantics of natural language, simultaneously encompassing important issues in linguistics, philosophy, and logic. It develops the view that the logical forms of simple English sentences typically contain quantification over events or states and shows how this view can account for a wide variety of semantic phenomena.
Focusing on the structure of meaning in English sentences at a "subatomic" level - that is, a level below the one most theories accept as basic or "atomic" Parsons asserts that the semantics of simple English sentences require logical forms somewhat more complex than is normally assumed in natural language semantics. His articulation of underlying event theory explains a wide variety of apparently diverse semantic characteristics of natural language, and his development of the theory shows the importance of seeing the distinction between events and states.

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Terence Parsons is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262660938
• ISBN 13: 9780262660938
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 334
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