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A theory of events is required for the complete explanation of natural language referring expressions, since there are genuine event-referring expressions (e.g., in English). I give here an event theory first, based on expanding Kim’s (1969, 1973, 1976) conception of concrete events. Then, I show how reference, coreference, and quantfications over English event phrases (EPs) ought to be contained in representations of the ‘natural’ logical form of sentences they occur in.
This chapter is a corrected version of the same title read to the 6th International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Hannover, Germany, 22–29 August 1979 (and appearing in the Congress Abstracts, Section 10–12, pp. 177–181).
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Peterson, P.L. (1997). The Natural Logic of Complex Event Expressions. In: Fact Proposition Event. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8959-8_8
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