Preface

pp.：  7 – 9

1. Introduction

pp.：  9 – 9

1.1. Manner Adverbs

pp.：  9 – 11

1.2. The Operator Approach of Thomason and Stalnaker

pp.：  11 – 16

1.3. The Narrow Operator Approach

pp.：  16 – 18

1.4. The Event Based Approach

pp.：  18 – 20

1.5. Appendix: Operators Are Not Essential

pp.：  20 – 22

2.1. Events and Sets of Times

pp.：  22 – 24

2. Ontology

pp.：  22 – 22

2.2. Events as Spatio-Temporal Regions

pp.：  24 – 28

2.3. Semantic Participants

pp.：  28 – 50

2.4. Summary

pp.：  50 – 51

3.1. Attribution

pp.：  51 – 60

3. Events and Their Names

pp.：  51 – 51

3.2. Evaluative Adverbs

pp.：  60 – 65

3.3. Causation

pp.：  65 – 79

4. Mereological Structure

pp.：  79 – 79

4.1. Evidence in Favour of Complex Events

pp.：  79 – 88

4.2. Persistent Event Structures

pp.：  88 – 111

4.3. Non-boolean Conjunction

pp.：  111 – 124

5.1. Modification of Big Events

pp.：  124 – 128

5. Scope

pp.：  124 – 124

5.2. Existential Closure, and Diesing’s Mapping Hypothesis

pp.：  128 – 131

5.3. On Little and Big Events

pp.：  131 – 135

6. Manner Adverbs and Word Order

pp.：  135 – 136

6.1. Manner Adverbs and Indefinite NPs

pp.：  136 – 138

6.2. Intonation and Normality

pp.：  138 – 144

6.3. Focus, and the Interpretation of Indefinites

pp.：  144 – 167

6.4. Adverbs of Degree of Perfection

pp.：  167 – 172

6.5. Conclusion

pp.：  172 – 173

7. Bibliography

pp.：  173 – 177