Eventive versus stative causation: the case of German causal von-modifiers
Eventive versus stative causation: the case of German causal von-modifiers
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事件因果关系与静态因果关系:德国因果 von 修饰词的案例
DOI:
10.1007/s10988-016-9201-8
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Herdtfelder
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文献类型:
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作者:
Maienborn;Herdtfelder
Causation is generally conceived of as a relation that holds between events. Apart from a few cursory remarks, the case of stative causation has been widely neglected. The paper aims at contributing to a more balanced perspective by arguing for a stative variant of causation, on a par with eventive causation. The stative variant is analyzed in terms of Moltmann’s ontological notion of tropes. German causalvon-modifiers (‘from’) are taken as a linguistic window into our understanding of causation. The study ofvonis particularly suited to this endeavor, becausevon-modifiers are confined to expressing the core notion of “direct causation” (Wolff in Cognition 88(1):1–48, 2003). The paper develops a compositional semantics of causalvon-modifiers that derives their eventive and stative readings from a single lexical entry and allows for coercive adaptions to account for the observed range of interpretive adjustments. Characteristic features of the interpretation such as the inferential behavior of causalvon-modifiers and the holistic effect of the stative reading are traced back to independently motivated conceptual assumptions concerning the spatiotemporal grounding of direct causation. The formal analysis is couched in terms of Asher’s (Lexical meaning in context. A web of words. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011) type composition logic.
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作者:
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通讯作者:
M. Krifka
DOI:
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发表时间:
2009
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影响因子:
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作者:
Friederike Moltmann
通讯作者:
Friederike Moltmann
影响因子:
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P. Wolff
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1976
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2016
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作者:
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