Skip to main content
Log in

Event Calculus, Nominalisation, and the Progressive

  • Published:
Linguistics and Philosophy Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

REFERENCES

  • Abney, S.: 1987, ‘The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect’, PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Asher, N.: 1992, ‘A Default, Truth Conditional Semantics for the Progressive’, Linguistics and Philosophy 15, 463–508.

    Google Scholar 

  • Asher, N.: 1993, Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse. Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Austin, J.: 1961, ‘Truth’, in Philosophical Papers, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bach, E.: 1986a, ‘The Algebra of Events’, Linguistics and Philosophy 9, 5–16.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bach, E.: 1986b, ‘Natural Language Metaphysics’, In: R. B. Marcus, G. Dorn and P. Weingartner (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VII. Studies in Logic 114, North Holland, Amsterdam.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bonomi, A.: 1997, ‘The Progressive and the Structure of Events’, Journal of Semantics 14, 173–205.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cantini, A.: 1996, Logical Frameworks for Truth and Abstraction, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chierchia, G.: 1988, Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Infinitives and Gerunds, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomsky, N.: 1970, ‘Remarks on Nominalization’, in A. Jacobs and P. Rosenbaum (eds.), Readings in Transformational Grammar, Ginn and Co., Waltham (MA), pp. 184–221.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomsky, N.: 1981, Lectures on Government and Binding, Foris, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cresswell, M.: 1973, Logics and Languages, Methuen, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dowty, D.: 1979, Word Meaning and Montague Grammar, Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dowty, D.: 1991, ‘Thematic Proto–Roles and Argument Selection’, Language 67, 547–619.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eckardt, R. (ed.): 1998, Adverbs, Events, and Other Things, Niemeyer, Tübingen.

    Google Scholar 

  • Feferman, S.: 1984, ‘Toward Useful Type-Free Theories I’, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 49, 75–111.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gamut, L. T. F.: 1991, Logic, Language and Meaning: Volume II, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hamm, F., A. Holzapfel and S. Schüle: 1998, ‘Nominalisierungstypen im Akatek Maya und im Japanischen’, STUF 51, 228–255.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hamm, F. and M. van Lambalgen: 2002, ‘Intensionality and Coercion’, to appear in R Kahle (ed.), Intensionality, ASL Lecture Notes in Logic.

  • Higginbotham, J.: 1983, ‘The Logic of Perceptual Reports: An Extensional Alternative to Situation Semantics’, Journal of Philosophy 80, 100–127.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodges, W.: 1993, Model Theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jespersen, O.: 1933, Essentials of English Grammar, Allen & Unwin, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kalsbeek, M. B. and Y. Jiang: 1995, ‘A Vademecum of of Ambivalent Logic’, in K. Apt and F. Turini (eds.), Meta-logics and Logic Programming, MIT Press, pp. 27–56.

  • Kamp, H. and U. Reyle: 1993, From Discourse to Logic, Reidel, Dordrecht..

    Google Scholar 

  • Kleene, S.: 1952, Introduction to Metamathematics, Van Nostrand, Princeton.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kowalski, R. A. and M. Sergot: 1986, ‘A Logic-based Calculus of Events’, New Generation Computing 4, 65–97.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krifka, M.: 1989) Nominalreferenz und Zeitkonstitution, Fink, München.

    Google Scholar 

  • Landman, F.: 1992, ‘The Progressive’, Natural Language Semantics 1, 1–32.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lasersohn, P.: 1995, Plurality, Conjunction and Events, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lifschitz, V.: 1994, ‘Circumscription’, in D. Gabbay, C. Hogger and J. Robinson (eds.), Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming: Vol 3, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

    Google Scholar 

  • Link, G.: 1987, ‘Algebraic Semantics for Event Structures’, in J. Groenendijk, M. Stokhof and F. Veltman (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Amsterdam Colloquium.

  • McCarthy, J. and P. Hayes: 1969, ‘Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence’, in D. Michie and B. Meltzer (eds.), Machine Intelligence 4, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mendelson, E.: 1987, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Wadsworth & Brooks, Pacific Grove.

    Google Scholar 

  • Naumann, R. and Ch. Piñón: 1997, ‘Decomposing the Progressive’, in P. Dekker, M. Stokhof and Y. Venema (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parsons, T.: 1990, Events in the Semantics of English, MIT University Press, Cambridge MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Portner, P.: 1991, ‘Situation Theory and the Semantics of Propositional Expressions’, PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

    Google Scholar 

  • Poutsma, H.: 1923, The Infinitive, the Gerund and the Particles of the English Verb, Noordhoff, Groningen.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pullum, G.: 1991, ‘English Nominal Gerund Phrases as Noun Phrases with Verb-Phrase Heads’, Linguistics 29, 763–799.

    Google Scholar 

  • Reichenbach, H.: 1947, Elements of Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, Inc., New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Reuland, E.: 1983, ‘Governing-ing’, Linguistic Inquiry 14, 10–34.

    Google Scholar 

  • Richards, B.: 1974, ‘A Point of View’, Synthese 28(4), 431–445.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sato, T.: 1992, ‘Meta-programming through a Truth Predicate’, in K. Apt (ed.), Proceedings JICSLP, MIT Press, pp. 526–540.

  • Scalise, S.: 1984, Generative Morphology, Foris, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schachter, P.: 1976, ‘A Nontransformational Account of Gerundive Nominals in English’, Linguistic Inquiry 7, 1–55.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shanahan, M.: 1990, ‘Representing Continous Change in The Event Calculus’, in Proceedings ECAI 90, pp. 598–603.

  • Shanahan, M.: 1995, ‘A Circumscriptive Calculus of Events’, Artificial Intelligence 77, 249–287.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shanahan, M.: 1996a, ‘A Logical Account of the Common Sense Informatic Situation for a Mobile Robot’, London.

  • Shanahan, M.: 1996b, ‘Robotics and the Common Sense Informatic Situation’, in Working Notes of Common Sense 96, The Third Symposium on Logical Formalisation of Commonsense, pp. 186–198.

  • Shanahan, M.: 1997, Solving the Frame Problem – A Mathematical Investigation of the Common Sense Law of Inertia, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Spencer, A.: 1991, Morphological Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stassen, L.: 1997, Intransitive Predication, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

    Google Scholar 

  • Steedman, M.: 1997, ‘Temporality’, in J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen (eds.), Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

    Google Scholar 

  • van Lambalgen, M. and F. Hamm: 2001, ‘Moschovakis’ Notion of Meaning as Applied to Linguistics', to appear in M. Baaz, J. Krajicek (eds.), Logic Colloquium 2001, ASL Lecture Notes in Logic.

  • Vendler, Z.: 1967, Linguistics in Philosophy, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vendler, Z.: 1968, Adjectives and Nominalizations, Mouton, The Hague.

    Google Scholar 

  • Verkuyl, H.: 1993, A Theory of Aspectability. The Interaction between Temporal and Atemporal Structure, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Westerståhl, D.: 1989, ‘Quantifiers in Formal and Natural Languages’, in D. Gabbay and F. Guenthner (eds.), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Vol IV, Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zucchi, A.: 1993, The Language of Propositions and Events, Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zucchi, S.: 1999, ‘Incomplete Events, Intensionality and Imperfective Aspect’, Natural Language Semantics 7, 179–215.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Hamm, F., van Lambalgen, M. Event Calculus, Nominalisation, and the Progressive. Linguistics and Philosophy 26, 381–458 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024618703103

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024618703103

Keywords

Navigation