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359Measuring Duration in DutchFoundations of Language 8 (1): 62-96. 1972.The purpose of this article is to show a structural relationship in Dutch between sentences with the main verb "duren" (last) and specifying complements such as een week (a week) or "drie kwartier" (three quarters of an hour) on the one hand, and sentences with Duration Measuring Adverbials such as "gedurende een week" (for a week), "gedurende die week" (lit: for that week) on the other.
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517Interpretive Rules and the Description of the AspectsFoundations of Language 14 (4): 471-503. 1976.This paper aims at showing that the generative-semantic framework is not essential to the proposal in H.J. Verkuyl On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects Reidel:Dordrecht 1972. Compositionality can be shown to be neutral as to the then-difference between generative-semantic and the interpretive-semantic branch of transformational grammar.
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61Shifting perspectives in discourseLinguistics and Philosophy 19 (5). 1996.Topic of this paper is the way in which the structure of events features in discourse. We focus on the structure as introduced by verbs that express some sense of progress. First it is shown by means of examples that this structure is anaphorically available in discourse. Then we go on to discuss the different ways in which the same event may be structured within one discourse situation. We give formal representations of the crucial examples in many-sorted dynamic logic.
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E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer, and BH Partee, eds., Quantification in Natural Languages (Volumes I & H)Journal of Logic Language and Information 8 243-251. 1999.
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3700Numerals and quantifiers in X-bar syntax and their semantic interpretationIn Jeroen A. G. Groenendijk, Theo M. V. Janssen & Martin B. Stokhof (eds.), Formal Methods in the Study of Language Volume 2, U of Amsterdam. pp. 567-599. 1981.The first aim of the paper is to show that under certain conditions generative syntax can be made suitable for Montague semantics, based on his type logic. One of the conditions is to make branching in the so-called X-bar syntax strictly binary, This makes it possible to provide an adequate semantics for Noun Phrases by taking them as referring to sets of collections of sets of entities ( type <ett,t>) rather than to sets of sets of entities (ett).
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137An algebra of conceptual structure; an investigation into Jackendoff's conceptual semanticsLinguistics and Philosophy 17 (1). 1994.
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43Quantification in natural languages (volumes I & II), E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer, and B.h. Partee, edsJournal of Logic, Language and Information 8 (2): 243-251. 1999.
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1865On the Compositional Nature of the AspectsD.Reidel Publishing Company. 1972.This book is a thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Utrecht. It was prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. H. Schultink. I would like to express my gratitude to him for his criticisms of earlier versions which led to many improvements, in particular with respect to the exposition of the argument. To my co-referent Dirk van Dalen, reader in the Department of Philo sophy (,Centrale Interfaculteit') of the University of Utrecht, I am greatly indebted for his valuable an…Read more
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18Adverbialization, Nominalization and Lexical Options; A ReplyFoundations of Language 11 (2): 281-285. 1974.This paper is a reply to a reaction to our joint paper Measuring Duration in Dutch (1971)
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103Aspectual classes and aspectual compositionLinguistics and Philosophy 12 (1). 1989.This paper is a critical examination of Vendler's well-known aspectual classes (states, activities, accomplishments, achievements). It is argued that it not classes that play a role in the explanation of aspectual phenomena but rather some specific semantic factors from which aspectual classes can be constructed, in particular factors inherent to the (lexical) verb and to the determiners of noun phrases.
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Utrecht UniversityDepartment for Philosophy and Religious StudiesOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Areas of Specialization
| Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
| 19th Century Philosophy |
| 20th Century Philosophy |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |