Part I. ACTION
I. Introduction
II. Some Theories on the Logic of Action
II.a. von Wright
II.b. Davidson
II.c. PΓΆrn
II.d. Aqvist
III. Some Items from the Theory of Verbs involving Agency
III.a. Evidence for the Presence of Agency in certain Verb Classes
III.b. Agency and the Progressive in English
III.c. The Formal Structure of Verbs
Ill.d. Two Important Classes
IV. Reciprocal Verbs and the Passive
V. DO
V.1. A Formal Semantics
VI. DO and the Semantics of Reciprocal Verbs
VII. Some Left-Over Problems
Part II. COMPARISON AND CHANGE
I. Introduction
II. A Calculus for Adjectives and Nouns
III. Vagueness, Supervaluations and Comparison Classes
IV. Problems with Supervaluations and Comparison Classes
V. An Alternative Proposal
VI. A Language and a Semantics for Adjectives
VII. Subclasses of Adjectives and their Properties
VII.a. Privative Adjectives
VII.b. Affirmative Adjectives
VII.c. Linear Adjectives
VII.d. Strongly Predicative Adjectives
VII.e. Weakly Predicative Adjectives
VII.f. Strongly Extensional Adjectives
VII.g. Weakly Extensional Adjectives
VII.h. One Dimensional Adjectives
VIII. Some Items of the Semantics
IX. An Axiom System
X. On the Order of Adjectives
XI. Some Further Remarks on the Comparative
XII. The Description of Change
XII. 1. The Combination of the Tree-System for Action Sentences with the System for Adjectives
XII.2. The Language LΒ΄
XII.3. Semantics for LΒ΄
XII.4. Truth Conditions and a Hypothesis
XIII. Coda; A Final Remark on the Logical Form of Comparatives
Footnotes
References