Acts, occasions and multiplicatives : A mereotopological account

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/a5wn4f77" target="_blank" >10.3765/a5wn4f77</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Acts, occasions and multiplicatives : A mereotopological account
Original language description
In this paper, I argue for the relevance of structured part-whole configurations in the domain of events. The evidence comes from the well-known event-internal/external distinction, which concerns mutliplicative adverbials quantifying either over separate occasions or occasion-internal acts, respectively (e.g., Cusic 1981, Andrews 1983, Cinque 1999, Zhang 2017). In order to capture this distinction, I postulate that the relationship between the two categories is based on a part-whole relation. In particular, inspired by proposals advocating the role of eventive higher-order units (Landman 2006, Henderson 2017) and building on the theories of (Grimm 2012) and (Mazzola 2019), I propose to extend mereotopology to the domain of events. I argue that this allows for capturing acts as simplex events conceptualized as bounded integrated MSSC wholes, whereas occasions as clusters, i.e., temporally structured configurations, of such simplex events.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33
ISBN
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ISSN
2163-5951
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
276-297
Publisher name
Linguistic Society of America
Place of publication
Washington, DC
Event location
Yale University
Event date
Jan 1, 2023
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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