Since entering the stage, Davidsonian event arguments have taken on a central role in linguistic theorizing. Recent years have seen a continuous extension of possible applications for them, not only in semantics but also in syntax. At the same time questions concerning the ontological status of events have received renewed attention. This collection of articles provides new evidence for the virtually ubiquitous presence of event arguments in linguistic structure and sheds new light on their nature. The volume is organized into four sections: Events - states - causation; Event nominals; Events in composition; Measuring events.

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Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2011

ISBN

9783110913798

Edition

Topic

Langues et linguistique

Subtopic

Linguistique

Introduction
Section I: Events - states - causation
The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME
Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects
Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations
Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish
Sentence connection as quantificational structure
Section II: Event nominals
Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation
Referential arguments of nouns and verbs
Section III: Events in composition
Building resultatives
Reconciling “possessor” datives and “beneficiary” datives - Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German
Event arguments and modal verbs
Section IV: Measuring events
Types of degrees and types of event structures
Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items
Semantic properties of split topicalization in German
Author index
Subject index