Silvia Gennari

Temporal constitution and nominal reference: theoretical and experimental approaches

In this talk, I will discuss the parallelism between event types and nominal reference, in particular, the semantic similarity between stative verbs and mass nouns, on the one hand, and event verbs and count nouns, on the other. I will report an experiment that tries to address this somewhat elusive semantic relation.

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