Linguistische Arbeiten
- Band 170:
- Hoepelman, Jaap: Action, comparison and change. A study in the semantics of verbs and adjectives.
VI/194 S. - Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986.
ISBN: 3-484-30170-8
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IDS-Bibliothek: Sig. MS 797
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- E-Book (PDF). Berlin / New York: de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-163374-9
In order to properly describe action, a formal model based on a tree system inspired by Aquist's work is introduced. In order to describe change, a new semantics for predicate logic is proposed, in which assignment of truth values is treated as a matter of comparison.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Part I: Action | |||
| I. | Introduction | S. 1 | |
| II. | Some Theories on the Logic of Action | S. 2 | |
| III. | Some Items from the Theory of Verbs involving Agency | S. 28 | |
| IV. | Reciprocal Verbs and the Passive | S. 56 | |
| V. | DO | S. 71 | |
| VI. | DO and the Semantics of Reciprocal Verbs | S. 90 | |
| VII. | Some Left-Over Problems | S. 94 | |
| Part II: Comparison and Change | |||
| I. | Introduction | S. 99 | |
| II. | A Calculus for Adjectives and Nouns | S. 100 | |
| III. | Vagueness, Supervaluations and Comparison Classes | S. 105 | |
| IV. | Problems with Supervaluations and Comparison Classes | S. 108 | |
| V. | An Alternative Proposal | S. 110 | |
| VI. | A Language and a Semantics for Adjectives | S. 113 | |
| VII. | Subclasses of Adjectives and their Properties | S. 129 | |
| VIII. | Some Items of the Semantics | S. 135 | |
| IX. | An Axiom System | S. 141 | |
| X. | On the Order of Adjectives | S. 143 | |
| XI. | Some Further Remarks on the Comparative | S. 145 | |
| XII. | The Description of Change | S. 158 | |
| XIII. | Coda; A Final Remark on the Logical Form of Comparatives | S. 176 | |
| Footnotes | S. 179 | ||
| References | S. 188 | ||