Farkas & DeSwart on the Semantics of Incorporation

Donka Farkas and Henriëtte de Swart (to appear, 2003). “The semantics of incorporation: from argument structure to discourse transparency”:http://www.let.uu.nl/~Henriette.deSwart/personal/Farkas+DeSwart.htm. Stanford: CSLI publications. Individual pdf-files for 7 chapters are made available:

  • Chapter 1. Incorporation: the semantic challenge
  • Chapter 2. Discourse referents, thematic arguments and plurality
  • Chapter 3. Incorporation as unification of thematic arguments
  • Chapter 4. Incorporation in Hungarian: the case of bare singulars
  • Chapter 5. Bare plurals
  • Chapter 6. Shades of discourse transparency
  • Chapter 7. Comparisons with previous approaches