Semantics - Noun Phrases and Verb Phrases

✍ Scribed by Paul Portner (editor); Klaus von Heusinger (editor); Claudia Maienborn (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 628
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area.

• state of the art in linguistic semantics
• great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field
• for the first time available as paperbacks

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Pronouns
2. Definiteness and indefiniteness
3. Specificity
4. Quantifiers
5. Bare noun phrases
6. Possessives and relational nouns
7. Mass nouns and plurals
8. Genericity
9. Aspectual class and Aktionsart
10. Perfect and progressive
11. Verbal mood
12. Deverbal nominalization
13. Tense
14. Modality
15. Conditionals
16. Propositional attitudes
17. Indexicality and De Se reports
Index