Acts, occasions and multiplicatives : A mereotopological
account

D 2023

Acts, occasions and multiplicatives : A mereotopological account

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Basic information

Original name

Acts, occasions and multiplicatives : A mereotopological account

Authors

WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Washington, DC, Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33, p. 276-297, 22 pp. 2023

Publisher

Linguistic Society of America

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00133115

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISSN

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/a5wn4f77

Keywords in English

multiplicatives; event-internal/external quantification; acts; occasions; mereology; mereotopology

Abstract

V originále

In this paper, I argue for the relevance of structured part-whole configurations in the domain of events. The evidence comes from the well-known event-internal/external distinction, which concerns mutliplicative adverbials quantifying either over separate occasions or occasion-internal acts, respectively (e.g., Cusic 1981, Andrews 1983, Cinque 1999, Zhang 2017). In order to capture this distinction, I postulate that the relationship between the two categories is based on a part-whole relation. In particular, inspired by proposals advocating the role of eventive higher-order units (Landman 2006, Henderson 2017) and building on the theories of (Grimm 2012) and (Mazzola 2019), I propose to extend mereotopology to the domain of events. I argue that this allows for capturing acts as simplex events conceptualized as bounded integrated MSSC wholes, whereas occasions as clusters, i.e., temporally structured configurations, of such simplex events.

Links

MUNI/A/1249/2022, interní kód MU

Name: Lexikon a gramatika češtiny III - 2023

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

WĄGIEL, Marcin. Acts, occasions and multiplicatives : A mereotopological account. Online. In Kim, Juhyae; Öney, Burak; Zhang, Yao; Zhao, Fengyue (Lisa). Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America, 2023, p. 276-297. ISSN 2163-5951. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/a5wn4f77.

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WĄGIEL, Marcin. Acts, occasions and multiplicatives : A mereotopological account. Online. In Kim, Juhyae; Öney, Burak; Zhang, Yao; Zhao, Fengyue (Lisa). \textit{Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33}. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America, 2023, p.~276-297. ISSN~2163-5951. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/a5wn4f77.

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