Pure Event Semantics
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Philosophical Perspectives - 2025 - Schwarzschild - Pure Event Semantics.pdf
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Schwarzschild, Roger
Date Issued
May 28, 2025
Journal
Philosophical Perspectives
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Wiley
Citation
Schwarzschild, R.. 2024. “ Pure Event Semantics.” Philosophical Perspectives 38, no. 1: 38, 54–88.
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Final published version
Abstract
In a pure event semantics for natural language, the domain of quantification and predication is limited to events and states. I offerpure event semantic analyses of several phenomena, some of which have not been treated before in formal semantics. In the pureevent semantics sketched in the second section, nouns are state predicates, and this provides the starting point for the analyses.The phenomena involve grammatical number, the mass-count distinction, adjectival modification, count adjectives, diminutives,lexical plurals, duals, and mass gender. In the conclusion, there is a brief discussion of potential metaphysical or psychologicalramifications of doing semantics this way.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12210
