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BL
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706053
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b528242
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| Main Entry
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Verkuyl, H. J.
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| Title & Author
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A theory of aspectuality : : the interaction between temporal and atemporal structure /\ Henk J. Verkuyl.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1993.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ;; 64
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xvii, 393 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521443628
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: 9780521443623
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-385) and index.
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| Contents
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Issues of Compositionality -- The Plus-principle -- Inner and outer aspect -- [[plus or minus]ADD TO] and [[plus or minus]SQA] -- Aspectual asymmetry -- The scope of this study -- Aspectual classes and aspectual composition -- Vendler's time schemata -- Continuous Tense Criteria -- Definiteness Criteria -- On the alleged punctual nature of Achievements -- Mourelatos' merger of Vendler and Kenny -- Dowty's reductionist approach -- Hoeksema's cross-classification -- Carlson's extension -- Ter Meulen's hierarchy -- Moens' temporal ontology -- Noun Phrase Structure -- The tools of generalized quantification -- Extensional type logic: EL -- Generalized quantification -- In search of SQA -- SQA: Boundedness of A[characters not reproducible]B? -- Constraints on Quantifiers -- Is SQA a constraint on Quantifiers? -- Properness and terminativity -- Numerals and quantifiers: one level up -- NP = [Det [Num ... N[superscript 0]]] -- [N[superscript 0]] = [olash]: Strawson vs. Russell -- Some problems of prenominal NP structure -- Det-num-problems -- Problems with all, the and every -- Indefinite and definite bare plurals -- Determiner structure -- A problem with [phi] -- Scalarity, partitions and pseudo-partitions -- Plug -- Multiple quantification -- All and every again -- Negation -- Some explorative issues -- X-bar theory and Plug -- Bareness again -- Mass terms -- Temporal Structure -- Homogeneity -- Homogeneity and truth at intervals -- Three problems for Dowty -- Homogeneity and the alleged Imperfective Paradox.
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Generative grammar.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Aspect.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Quantifiers.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Temporal constructions.
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Language and logic.
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Semantics.
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| LC Classification
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P281.V43 1993
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