In recent years the study of events and their role as implicit arguments ofpredicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and thesyntaxse... » 

In recent years the study of events and their role as implicit arguments ofpredicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and thesyntaxsemantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen originalstudies by leading scholars in semantics and the syntaxsemantics interfacecovering a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. Thepapers extensively address the following topics among others event argumentsand thematic argument structure the role of events in verbal aspectualdistinctions events and the distinction between stage and individual levelpredicates the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scoperelations the masscount distinction and propositional attitudes. TOCSTRONG1.STRONG Introduction. STRONG2.STRONG Generalizing Tense Semantics forFuture Contexts. STRONG3.STRONG Thematic Roles and the Individuation ofEvents. STRONG4.STRONG Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of SemanticParameter. STRONG5.STRONG Progressives States and Backgrounding. STRONG6.STRONG An Overt Syntactic Marker for Genericity in Hebrew. STRONG7.STRONG OnGeneric and Existential Bare Plurals and the Classification of Predicates.STRONG8.STRONG Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there WideScope Indefinites?STRONG9.STRONG The Origins of Telicity. STRONG10.STRONG Plurals andMaximalization. STRONG11.STRONG Events in the Semantics of CollectivizingAdverbials. STRONG12.STRONG Stativity and Theticity. STRONG13.STRONGCognate Objects as Reflections of Davidsonian Event Arguments. STRONG14.STRONG SubjectOriented Adverbs are Thematically Dependent. STRONG15.STRONGAspect Shift. Index. «