This article surveys the state of the art in the field of semantic universals. We examine
potential semantic universals in three areas:(i) the lexicon,(ii) semantic “glue”(functional …

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

The main goal of semantic fieldwork is to accurately capture the contribution of natural
language expressions to truth conditions and to pragmatic felicity conditions, by interacting …

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the
meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly …

This paper contributes data from Paraguayan Guaraní (Tupí-Guaraní) to the discussion of
how temporal reference is determined in tenseless languages. The empirical focus of this …

We propose an account of dynamic predicates which draws on the notion of force,
eliminating reference to events in the linguistic semantics. We treat dynamic predicates as …

This paper proposes a typology of partitive aspectual operators based on whether an
operator:(i) requires (non-) proper event parts in the extension of the VP that it combines with …

A long philosophical and linguistic literature on events going back to Aristotle distinguishes
between events that are internally structured in terms of distinct temporal stages leading to …

This paper argues for a constructionist approach to viewpoint Aspect by exploring the idea
that it does not exert any altering force on the situation-aspect properties of predicates. The …

This paper focuses on non‐culminating accomplishments and distinguishes them from
accomplishments used atelically. It delineates two different sources of event culmination …