New at the “semanticsarchive”:http://semanticsarchive.net
bq. Shan, Chung-chieh and Chris Barker. “Explaining crossover and superiority as left-to-right evaluation”:http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/TBjZDQ3Z/. Date submitted: 2003 02 27
New draft paper by “Graeme Forbes”:http://www.tulane.edu/~forbes/
bq. “Verbs of Creation and Depiction: More Events in the Semantics of English (Draft 5, February 2003)”:http://www.Tulane.EDU/~forbes/pdf_files/CDVerbs.pdf
bq. Abstract. This paper is descended from one written for a symposium on the work of Terence Parsons (Notre Dame University, 7th to 8th February 2003). Creation verbs (’build’, ‘construct’, ‘assemble’ etc.) and depiction verbs (’sketch’, ‘draw’, ’sculpt’, ‘imagine’ etc.) have certain affinities, and my solution to the unfinished object problem for creation verbs in the progressive has consequences for the the semantics I propose for notional readings of depiction verb phrases. The paper ends with a theory about why depiction verbs betray a definiteness effect in DP syntactic complements (”Verrocchio painted two/many/no angels” have notional readings, “Verrocchio painted the two/most/all angels” don’t).
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