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Predicates and Temporal Arguments

Theodore B. Fernald
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      A distinction is made in formal semantics between "stage-level predicates," predicates that describe the general state of a noun, and "individual-level predicates," predicates that specify the specific properties of a noun. Fernald investigates various contexts in which this distinction is traditionally said to come into play. His aim is to show that the effects displayed are not uniform, and that the differences between the analyses proposed in the literature arisefrom the authors considering different subsets of data that they take to exemplyify the "core" meaning of the stage/individual distinction. Fernald presents alternatives and extensions that shed light on the limitations of previous theories, as well as making original observations about importantaspects of the topic, including coercion, and perceptual reports vs. other phenomena.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Theodore B. Fernald EAN: 9780195114355 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 440 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-03-09 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 161 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of language, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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      A distinction is made in formal semantics between "stage-level predicates," predicates that describe the general state of a noun, and "individual-level predicates," predicates that specify the specific properties of a noun. Fernald investigates various contexts in which this distinction is traditionally said to come into play. His aim is to show that the effects displayed are not uniform, and that the differences between the analyses proposed in the literature arisefrom the authors considering different subsets of data that they take to exemplyify the "core" meaning of the stage/individual distinction. Fernald presents alternatives and extensions that shed light on the limitations of previous theories, as well as making original observations about importantaspects of the topic, including coercion, and perceptual reports vs. other phenomena.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Theodore B. Fernald EAN: 9780195114355 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 440 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-03-09 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 161 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy of language, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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