ConSOLE 26 2018 University College London

Negation in event semantics with actual and nonactual events

Timothée Bernard

Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7

timothee.bernard@ens.lyon.org
Davidsonian eventsnegationactuality

Abstract

The goal of this work is to provide a formal account of negation in a Davidsonian framework that (i) makes negative events available for the analysis of various constructions that are otherwise problematic (such as negative naked infinitives or adverbial modification) and (ii) exhibits reasonable logical properties. This is done by first distinguishing between actual and non-actual events and then introducing a Neg function sending any event-predicate P to the not-P event and obeying a single axiom.

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APA Style

Timothée Bernard (2018). negation in event semantics with actual and nonactual events. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 26, edited by Astrid van Alem, Anastasiia Ionova, Cora Pots, (pp. 350-366).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{bernard-negation-2018, title={Negation in event semantics with actual and nonactual events}, author={Timothée Bernard}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 26}, year={2018}, pages={350-366}, editor={Astrid van Alem and Anastasiia Ionova and Cora Pots} }