The Language of Propositions and Events offers a  comprehensive theory of the relation between noun meaning and verb  meaning. Two main theses are defended in this book. The first thesis  is that an adequate account of the interpretation and distribution of  nominals calls for a distinction between three types of entities in  the domain of discourse: events, propositions, and states of affairs.  It is argued that different types of nominals differ in their ability  to denote entities of these types and that predicates differ in their  ability to select for them. The second main thesis is that an adequate  characterization of the relation between noun meaning and verb meaning  can be given by taking account of the fact that situations may stand  in the part of relation. Kratzer's semantics of situations is  the basis for this analysis of nominalization. Moreover, the book  addresses the issue of the argument structure of nominals and offers  an analysis of the puzzling distribution of infinito  sostantivato in Italian.   For graduate students in semantics and syntax, theoretical linguists,  philosophers of language, students of Romance linguistics.

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