Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction IX
4. Section I: Event Structure and Syntactic Construction
5. Patients in Igbo and Mandarin 3
6. Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese 31
7. Syntactic decomposition of events in Korean and Standard Indonesian 55
8. Section II. Event Structure and Modification
9. Unifying illegally 81
10. Adverbial modification of adjectives: Evaluatives and a little beyond 103
11. The structure of criterion predicates 127
12. Reference to embedded eventualities 149
13. Section III: Event Structure and Situation Aspect
14. Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements 175
15. The notion of 'path' in aspectual composition: Evidence from Japanese 199
16. Reflexive intransitives in Spanish and event semantics 223
17. Scalar complexity and the structure of events 245
18. Section IV: Event Structure and Plurality
19. On the plurality of verbs 269
20. Event quantifícation and distributivity 301
21. The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals 327
22. Existential readings for bare plurals in object position 355
23. Section V: Event Structure and Temporal Location
24. Tense and adverbial quantification 389
25. Phase structures and quantification 413
26. Cohesion in temporal context: The role of aspectual adverbs 435
27. Mandarin sentential -le, perfect and English already 447
28. Section VI: Event Structure and Natural Language Ontology
29. The lower part of event ontology 477
30. Verbs of creation 493
31. Short Portraits of the Authors 523
32. Index 527