Contrasts the Davidsonian strategy of sentence semantics, which treats verbs as sets of ordered sequences of participants then extends the sequences to embrace the swell event; with the neo-Davidsonian, which considers verbs as sets of events and associates participants with these events through rel Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 520. . 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian: Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 081532846X
ISBN 13: 9780815328469
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in compositional semantics, and what a syntax/semantics map which incorporated such objects might look like.

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