Events, Arguments, and Aspects -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Events, arguments, and aspects -- 1. Two issues in the semantics of verbs -- 2. Arguments -- 2.1 Theories of argument structure -- 2.2 Introductory comments on the articles -- 3. Time, eventities, and aspect -- 3.1 Time -- 3.2 Eventities -- 3.3 Aspect -- 3.4 Introductory comments on the articles -- 4. Brief note on notation -- Bibliography -- part i Verb meaning and argument structure -- 1. Ergativity and the object-oriented representation of verb meaning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The object-oriented paradigm -- 3. Polysemy and argument roles -- 4. Ergativity -- 5. Correlates of the ergative/absolutive distinction -- 5.1 Bondedness to the verb -- 5.2 Control phenomena -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2. Grammatical metaphors and there-insertion in Danish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical metaphors -- 3. Unaccusativity -- 4. The position of the logical subject -- 5. Aktionsart and event structure -- 6. The there-insertion constraint -- 7. Danish transitive verbs in there-constructions( -- 8. Formal analysis of transitive verbs -- 9. Arguments and topology( -- 10. Passives -- 11. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3. Abstract objects of verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Verbs and their arguments -- 1.2 Classifying linguistic signs -- 2. Explaining the theory -- 2.1 The traditional analysis -- 2.2 Types and polymorphism( -- 2.3 Representation by abstract objects -- 2.4 Identifying objects( -- 3. Types and representation -- 3.1 Types as data types -- 3.2 Uniqueness and elimination -- 4. Comprehension -- 4.1 Problems with functions -- 4.2 More problems -- 4.3 A way out (?) -- 5. Historical remarks -- 6. Appendix: Ackermann's original system -- 6.1 Axioms of propositional logic -- 6.2 Axioms of predicate logic.

6.3 Axioms for identity -- 6.4 Axioms of class theory -- 6.5 Rules -- Bibliography -- 4. Object-orientation and the semantics of verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Object-orientation and its relevance to semantics -- 3. Modeling object-oriented: Unified Modeling Language (UML) -- 4. Verbal meaning -- 5. Object-oriented representation of verbal meaning: The basics -- 6. Multi-layered architecture -- 7. Eventity classes -- Bibliography -- Part II. Aspect and aktionsart -- 5. Aspectual coercion and eventuality structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A survey of eventuality structure -- 2.1 Aspectuality and eventuality structure -- 2.2 Sortal structure of eventualities -- 2.3 Intersortal structure of eventualities -- 3. A system of aspectual coercion -- 3.1 Coercion by durative adverbials -- 3.2 Coercion by time-span adverbials -- 3.3 Coercion by time-point adverbials -- 3.4 Coercion by the progressive -- 3.5 A two-stage approach: Aspectual coercion as pragmatic enrichment -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6. Phases in verbal semantics -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Phasal verb research and the phasal verb interface complex -- 1.2 Classical and medieval reasoning on phasal verbs and its connection with modern theories -- 2. Modern approaches to phasal verbs -- 2.1 Phasal verbs and the notion of boundedness (Jackendoff) -- 2.2 Explaining polysemy and underspecification in phasal verbs (Pustejovsky) -- 2.3 Interval semantics and phasal verbs (Partee & Bennett) -- 3. A model for the description of phasal verbs -- 3.1 Simple phase semantics: SPS -- 3.2 Conceptual completeness: CC -- 3.3 Time condition: TC -- 3.4 Restricted categorical selection: RCS -- 3.5 Participant reconstruction: PR -- 4. Conclusion and perspectives -- Bibliography -- 7. How light are aspectual meanings? A study of the relation between light verbs in Ukrainian.

1. Theoretical and methodological preliminaries -- 1.1 Grammatical aspects vs. aktionsarten -- 1.2 Lexical aspects -- 1.3 Definitions and diagnostic tests for lexical aspects -- 1.4 Aspectual coercion -- 1.5 Light verbs -- 1.6 Two functional approaches to grammar -- 1.7 Dictionary definitions and semantic knowledge -- 2. Empirical base and methodological procedure -- 2.1 Some observations about the definitions in SUM (2004) -- 2.2 Analytical procedure -- 3. Types of light verbs -- 3.1 Lightness vs. frequency -- 3.2 Compensators, modifiers and complicators -- 3.3 Semantic relations between light verbs as defining units -- 3.4 Semantic types of objects of light verbs -- 3.5 Light verbs and lexical aspects -- 4. Vendlerian lexical aspects -- 4.1 States -- 4.2 Activities -- 4.3 Achievements -- 4.4 Accomplishments -- 5. Conclusions: Light verbs, aktionsarten, and lexical aspects -- Bibliography -- 8. The 'say, do' verb in Nyulnyul, Warrwa, and other Nyulnyulan languages is monosemic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphology -- 3. {-JI} 'say' as a simple verb -- 4. {-Ji} 'say' in compound verb constructions -- 5. On the meaning of {-JI} 'say' -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 9. Predicate classes: A study in compositional semantics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discussing the state of the art -- 3. What are the criterial features for classification? -- 3.1 States and properties -- 3.2 Events -- 3.3 Durativity -- 3.4 Resultativity -- 3.5 Perfectivity and imperfectivity -- 3.6 A short note on ambiguity and underspecification -- 3.7 Punctuality -- 3.8 Summary -- 4. Classification according to verbal aspect and elementary predicates -- 4.1 Descriptive classification based on verbal aspect and argument structure -- 4.2 Resultativity and causativity -- 4.3 Resultativity without BECOME -- 4.4 Lexical entries for all classes -- 4.5 Some more examples.

5. Prospectus: Predicate classes, tense and aspect -- 5.1 "Tense" is a characteristic function -- 5.2 Form and interpretation of inflection -- 5.3 Sentential aspect, temporal adverbials and the German perfect tense -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of objects.