Events and semantic architecture /
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| Author / Creator: | Pietroski, Paul M. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | vi, 267 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5571538 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Overview
- 2. A plethora of semantic explananda
- 1. Elementary cases
- 1. A Fregean framework
- 2. A conjunctivist strategy
- 3. Grammatical relations and existential closure for all
- 4. Summary
- 2. Quantification and plurality
- 1. Two Fregean roads
- 2. Interpreting capitalized variables
- 3. Compositional details
- 4. Explanatory virtues
- 5. Plural noun-phrases as second-order predicates
- 3. Causal verbs and sentential complements
- 1. Causatives
- 2. Covert verbs and explanation
- 3. Serializers
- 4. Complementizer phrases as conjuncts
- Tentative conclusions and promissory notes
- 1. Review
- 2. Cautions
- 3. Larger issues.
