Pluractionality and the Unity of the Event

This paper exposes shortcomings of an analysis to single-event plural verbs (Cusic’s event-internal pluractionals) based on temporal discontinuity. It shows how to ground discontinuity on the participant used to measure out the event, by forcing breaches in the property of Mappingto-SubObject that its theta role should have. This provides an explanation for why phases cannot be described by the same predicate applying to the whole event, which in turn exposes differences with respect to semelfactive verbs and the minimal units they are made of.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: AMSTERDAM
• Authors: Lucia M. Tovena
• Keywords: AMSTERDAM 2009, Cusic’s Event-internal Pluractionals, Logical Reasoning, Single-event Plural Verbs, Temporal Discontinuity