nam a22 c 4500 la.188/617010341 nljbp 250625051549.7 cr ||||||||||| 241216s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012007723 9789027274168 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P281 415 23 CFG bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Husband, E. Matthew author On the Compositional Nature of States E. Matthew Husband Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xv, 170 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 0166-0829 188 Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. States and compositionality -- Chapter 3. The arguments of statives -- Chapter 4. Adjectival predicates and scale structures -- Chapter 5. Conclusions and speculations This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusing on evidence from both verbal and adjectival predicates, it argues that quantization forms the basis of a unified theory of aktionsart and provides a theory in which the availability of an existential interpretation in states is, like the telicity of events, determined compositionally by the predicate and the quantization of its internal argument. Quantization is further argued to reflect the internal temporal constitution of the stages of an individual which is tied to the generation of an existential interpretation. This monograph will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists who are specifically concerned with compositional approaches to eventualities, and to those who have a more general interest in the role linguistic theory can play in determining core properties of the mind. Provided by publisher. Semantics Syntax Theoretical linguistics Husband, E. Matthew author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027255716 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/la.188 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274168