A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.In this book, Barry Schein argues that “and” is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. “And” always means “&,” across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challenge his thesis, and shows that the objections disappear when these constructions are translated into Eventish, a neo-Davidsonian event semantics, and, enlarged with Cinerama Semantics, a vocabulary for spatial orientation and navigation. Besides rescuing “and” from ambiguity, Eventish and Cinerama Semantics solve general puzzles of grammar and meaning unrelated to conjunction, revealing the book's central thesis in the process: aspects of meaning mistakenly attributed to “and” are discovered to reflect neighboring structures previously unseen and unacknowledged.Schein argues that Eventish and Cinerama Semantics offer a fundamental revision to clause structure and what aspects of meaning are represented therein. Eventish is distinguished by four features: supermonadicity, which enlarges verbal decomposition so that every argument relates to its own event; descriptive event anaphora, which replaces simple event variables with silent descriptive pronouns; adverbialization, which interposes adverbials derived from the descriptive content of every DP; and AdrPs, which replace all NPs with Address Phrases that locate what nominals denote within scenes or frames of reference.With 'And,' Schein rehabilitates an old rule of transformational, generative grammar, answering the challenges to it exhaustively and meticulously.
Author(s): Barry Schein
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: Improvements with respect to C4DFFB6C04240429612066846CCFABA6: cover, front matter (but not vector PDF for this part), bookmarks, paginated (the other version is not paginated, even though it claims to be)
Pages: 1033
City: Cambridge, MA
Tags: And (The English word); Conjunctions; Grammar; Sentences; Coordinate Constructions; Generative Grammar
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
1.0 Univocal and
1.1 The slippery slope to Conjunction Reduction
1.2 Conjunction Reduction restrained
1.3 A new clausal architecture
1.4 Supermonadicity
1.5 Descriptive event pronouns
1.6 Adverbialization
1.7 Spatiotemporal orientation
1.8 Identity statements simpliciter and conditioned
1.9 Contextualism logicized
2 DP and DP
2.0 Coordinating generalized quantifiers, and the syntax and semantics of collectivized Right-Node Raising
2.1 Syntax and semantics for DP and DP
2.2 Number agreement
2.3 Number agreement in Lebanese Arabic
2.4 Coordination and subordination in Davidsonian logical form
2.5 First-conjunct agreement (with conjoined (in)definite descriptions)
2.6 Comitative phrases and number agreement in other languages
2.7 Summary
3 PredP and PredP: Of Subjects and Ancient Grievance
3.0 Of subjects and ancient grievance
3.1 Scope and reconstruction into subject position
3.2 Case’s place
3.2.0 Tailoring coordination to size
3.2.1 Small-clause sizes
3.2.2 Opacity in coordinate structures
3.3 Null coordinative pronouns
3.4 Reference under the eaves
3.5 Quantifier Lowering into collectivized Right-Node Raised constituents
3.6 Appendix: Economy and reconstruction
3.7 Summary
4 PredP and PredP: Coordination vs. Subordination
4.0 PredP and PredP: Coordinating supermonadic PredPs
4.1 (Tense+) Aux sharing
4.2 Bound morphemes and affixation under coordination
5 PredP and PredP: (Tense+) Aux Sharing
5.0 Progressive be
5.1 Perfect have
6 PredP and PredP: Complementation as a Condition on Subatomic Event Anaphora
6.0 The distribution of the disjunctive interpretation
6.1 The logical syntax of the disjunctive interpretation
6.2 Deriving the distribution of the disjunctive interpretation
6.3 Coordinating simple tensed verbs
7 PredP and PredP: Conclusion
8 Introducing Adverbialization and Cinerama
8.0 Previously …
8.1 The several faces of NP₁ and NP₂: Puzzles of extensional substitutivity
8.2 Spatiotemporal orientation and adverbialization
8.3 Coming attractions
9 Cinerama Semantics
9.0 Reference mise-en-scène
9.1 Referring to frames of reference
9.2 Scenes for spatial orientation and navigation
9.3 The narration of visual experience, and narrative as artifact
9.4 Cinema verité
10 Adverbialization in Logical Form
10.0 The dependence of Tense and temporal reference on the descriptive content of nominal quantifiers
10.1 Mode-of-presentation effects: Substitutivity failures in simple sentences
10.2 Analytic, nonlogical substitutivity
10.3 Neighborhood watch: The view from symmetric predicates
10.4 Further consequences of adverbialization and supermonadicity: NPs as event descriptions
10.5 Summary
11 Naive Reference for the Cinéaste
11.0 A certain sequence of events
11.1 Recounts
12 Measuring Events
12.0 Counting with reference to events
12.1 Numerals
12.2 Singular plurals: [A(n) AP k NP.PL], [A(n) (AP) NP.SG and NP.SG]
12.3 Singular plurals, distributive plurals, and distributive singulars
13 Antisemidistributivity vs. Conjunction Reduction Redux
13.0 Semidistributivity
13.1 A null determiner
13.2 Antisemidistributivity and its antidote
14 [_DP D AdrP and AdrP]
14.0 Within the same DP: The context for conjoined AdrPs
14.1 AdrPs coordinated
14.2 Kinematic and object-tracking scenes and frames of reference
15 The Ordered-Pair lllusion
15.0 Perspectival relations within nominal conjuncts
15.1 Scenes in the neighborhood
16 QED
Appendix 1: Descriptive Anaphora and Nonmaximal Reference under Selective Perspectives
Appendix 2: Eventish
Notes
1 Introduction
2 DP and DP
3 PredP and PredP: Of Subjects and Ancient Grievance
4 PredP and PredP: Coordination vs. Subordination
5 PredP and PredP: (Tense+) Aux Sharing
6 PredP and PredP: Complementation as a Condition on Subatomic Event Anaphora
7 PredP and PredP: Conclusion
8 Introducing Adverbialization and Cinerama
9 Cinerama Semantics
10 Adverbialization in Logical Form
11 Naive Reference for the Cinéaste
12 Measuring Events
13 Antisemidistributivity vs. Conjunction Reduction Redux
14 [_DP D AdrP and AdrP]
15 The Ordered-Pair Illusion
Appendix 1: Descriptive Anaphora and Nonmaximal Reference under Selective Perspectives
Appendix 2: Eventish
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
