Verbal Semantics and Modification
Zeit und Ort:
Di 12:00 - 14:00, Anglistik Common Room (2004a)
- 2008-10-21 Verb meaning in formal semantics (two slides)
- 2008-10-28/11-04 Event semantics
Reading: Parsons, T. (1990). Events in the Semantics of English. Chapter 2 (In the Handapparat)
- 2008-11-11 Linking and thematic relations
Reading: pp. 472-480 in: Chierchia/McConnell-Ginet(2000). Meaning and Grammar (In the Handapparat)
- 2008-11-18/11-25 Linking and thematic relations
Reading: Kratzer, A. (1996) Severing the external argument from its verb. In:
Rooryck and Zaring (eds) Phrase Structure and the Lexicon. Dordrecht:
Kluwer, pp. 109-37
- 2008-12-02 Types of Adjuncts
Reading: Parsons, T. (1990). Events in the Semantics of English. Chapter 4.5 (In the Handapparat)
- 2008-12-09 Davidson on events and modification [student presentation]
Reading: Davidson, D. (1967). The logical form of action sentences. (In the
Handapparat as chapter six of the Davidson essay collection)
- 2008-12-16 Subsective Adjectives
- 2009-01-06 The event argument and state verbs [student presentation]
- 2009-01-13 More on state verbs and some very strange data
- 2009-01-20 The semantic representation of manner adverbials [student presentation]
- 2009-01-27 Resultatives
Reading: Jane Simpson, 1983. Resultatives. In Papers in Lexical-functional Grammar
eds. Lori Levin, Malka Rappaport and Annie Zaenen, 143-157.
Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club
This paper is available electronically here.
- 2009-02-03 Depictives
- 2009-02-10 Final discussion