TY - BOOK ID - 77939954 TI - Events, arguments, and aspects : topics in the semantics of verbs PY - 2014 SN - 9027270627 9789027270627 9789027259172 9027259178 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Semantics, Comparative. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Categorial grammar. KW - Verb KW - Comparative semantics KW - Grammar, Categorial KW - Aspect (Linguistics) KW - Verb. KW - Aspect. KW - Verb phrase KW - Verbals KW - Reflexives KW - Semantics KW - Verbal aspect KW - Temporal constructions KW - Linguistics KW - Philology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77939954 AB - The aspectual interpretation of sentences is constrained by the truth conditions predicates impose on points of times or time intervals. Using data from English, Vendler (1967) established a classification of four verb types on these grounds, that has been widely accepted in linguistic theory. Various researchers, among them Dowty (1979) for English and Ehrich (1992) for German, have proposed finer grained classifications. This paper is very much in the spirit of these proposals. Our aim is a detailed model of the compositional lexical semantics of predicates that models the contrasts of verba ER -