Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations

Kapitel in diesem Buch

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2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Section I: Events – states – causation
5. The event structure of CAUSE and BECOME 11
6. Stativity, supervenience, and sentential subjects 45
7. Do states have Davidsonian arguments? Some empirical considerations 69
8. Ser and estar: The syntax of stage level and individual level predicates in Spanish 89
9. Sentence connection as quantificational structure 113
10. Section II: Event nominals
11. Gerund types, the present participle and patterns of derivation 139
12. Referential arguments of nouns and verbs 153
13. Section III: Events in composition
14. Building resultatives 177
15. Reconciling “possessor” datives and “beneficiary” datives – Towards a unified voice account of dative binding in German 213
16. Event arguments and modal verbs 243
17. Section IV: Measuring events
18. Types of degrees and types of event structures 277
19. Too poor to mention: Subminimal events and negative polarity items 301
20. Semantic properties of split topicalization in German 331
21. Author index 357
22. Subject index 361