Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian : Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics

Omtale

First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in compositional semantics, and what a syntax/semantics map which incorporated such objects might look like.