Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs
Edited by Klaus Robering
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 152] 2014. viii, 373 pp.
Klaus Robering
List of John Benjamins publications for which Klaus Robering plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2014 Preface Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, Robering, Klaus (ed.), pp. vii–viii | Preface
2014 Abstract objects of verbs Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, Robering, Klaus (ed.), pp. 115–158 | Article
Verbs do often take arguments of quite different types. In an orthodox type-theoretic framework this results in an extreme polysemy of many verbs. In this article, it is shown that this unwanted consequence can be avoided when a theory of “abstract objects” is adopted according to which these… read more
2014 Introduction: Events, arguments, and aspects Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, Robering, Klaus (ed.), pp. 1–62 | Article