caa a22 4500 606154183 CHVBK 20210128100557.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10988-014-9162-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10988-014-9162-8 Champollion Lucas Department of Linguistics, NYU, New York, NY, USA aut The interaction of compositional semantics and event semantics [Elektronische Daten] [Lucas Champollion] Davidsonian event semantics is often taken to form an unhappy marriage with compositional semantics. For example, it has been claimed to be problematic for semantic accounts of quantification (Beaver and Condoravdi, in: Aloni etal. (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, 2007), for classical accounts of negation (Krifka, in: Bartsch etal. (eds.) Semantics and contextual expression, 1989), and for intersective accounts of verbal coordination (Lasersohn, in Plurality, conjunction and events, 1995). This paper shows that none of this is the case, once we abandon the idea that the event variable is bound at sentence level, and assume instead that verbs denote existential quantifiers over events. Quantificational arguments can then be given a semantic account, negation can be treated classically, and coordination can be modeled as intersection. The framework presented here is a natural choice for researchers and fieldworkers who wish to sketch a semantic analysis of a language without being forced to make commitments about the hierarchical order of arguments, the argument-adjunct distinction, the default scope of quantifiers, or the nature of negation and coordination. The Author(s), 2014 Event semantics nationallicence Thematic roles nationallicence Quantifiers nationallicence Negation nationallicence Coordination nationallicence Conjunction nationallicence For-adverbials nationallicence Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/1(2015-02-01), 31-66 0165-0157 38:1<31 2015 38 10988 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-014-9162-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-014-9162-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Champollion Lucas Department of Linguistics, NYU, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistics and Philosophy Springer Netherlands 38/1(2015-02-01), 31-66 0165-0157 38:1<31 2015 38 10988