Events and "Logical Form"  

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Neale, Stephen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 11 no. 3 (Aug. 1988), page 303-322.

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In his paper 'The Logic of Perceptual Reports: An Extensional Alternative to Situation Semantics'! James Higginbotham proposes to account for a variety of facts concerning the semantics of "Naked-Infinitive" perceptual reports by quantifying over events at a level of logicosyntactic representation. Higginbotham's paper is interesting for two reasons. First, it is (as far as I can tell) the only published alternative to the situation semantics treatment of these facts, first put forward by Jon Barwise in his paper "Scenes and Other Situations"? And second, it aims to account for the relevant data by combining Davidson's analysis of the logical form of action sentences with some of the insights of a multilevelled Chomskyan syntax.3 The resulting theory is a somewhat curious blend; nevertheless it has enjoyed a large degree of uncritical acceptance. It is the purpose of the present paper to examining Higginbotham's theory in some detail. My conclusions may be stated at the outset. Contrary to what is claimed, the theory makes no desirable empirical predictions over and above those made by Barwise's original proposal. Moreover, once it is made fully explicit the prospects of the theory simultaneously fulfilling its syntactic and semantic obligations look remarkably grim.

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