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Müller, Stefan. Complex predicates: Verbal complexes, resultative constructions, and particle verbs in German. Stanford, Calif: CSLI Publications, 2002.

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Mller, Stefan. Complex predicates: Verbal complexes, resultative constructions, and particle verbs in German. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2002.

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The event structure of perception verbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

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From simple verbs to periphrastic expressions: The historical development of composite predicates, phrasal verbs, and related constructions in English. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008.

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Guasti, Maria Teresa. Causative and perception verbs: A comparative study. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1993.

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Whitt, Richard J. Evidentiality and perception verbs in English and German. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.

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Evidentiality and perception verbs in English and German. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.

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Infinitival complements in German: Lassen, scheinen, and the verbs of perception. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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McKay, Terence. Infinitival complements in German: Lassen, scheinen and the verbs of perception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Storch, Anne. Perception of the invisible: Religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs. Köln: Köppe, 2010.

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Speyer, Augustin. The ACI construction in the history of German. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813545.003.0017.

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The ACI (accusativus cum infinitivo) in Modern German is governed almost exclusively by perception verbs. For genuine OHG, the same can be said. In MHG and ENHG authors began to experiment with other verb classes as potentially governing ACIs, probably influenced by Latin, but this usage never made its way in ‘normal’ grammar. The tenacity of the exclusive association of ACI with perception verbs hints at an analysis in which the logical subject of the ACI is a constituent on its own, the predicate part of the ACI being a separate constituent. Other tests, e.g. tests for constituency, point in the same direction. This is different from Latin; here the ACI as a whole counts as constituent and can therefore as a whole function as direct object. The structural difference might account for the fact that the syntactic loan of an extended usage of the ACI never came to fruition.
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Truswell, Robert, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685318.001.0001.

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This volume offers an introduction to current research in event structure, the study of the role of events in grammar. This area of study breaks down into several interrelated questions: How do we perceive events? How do events as objects of perception relate to linguistic event descriptions? What structural distinctions can we make among events, and how are these distinctions reflected grammatically? How do events relate to their participants? To what extent does syntax constrain the grammar of event descriptions? The handbook reflects the growth of this field, from three foundational hypotheses: that action sentences are predicates of event variables (Davidson), that verb meanings can be divided into a small number of aspectual classes (Vendler), and that verb meanings can be partly decomposed into a small set of recurring primitives (Lakoff, McCawley). Part I considers the implications of the Davidsonian event variable for aspects of natural language metaphysics; Part II considers the relationship of event structure to morphosyntax; Part III focuses on crosslinguistic variation in event descriptions; and Part IV covers less narrowly grammatical aspects of event structure.
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Muller, Stefan. Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German. Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2002.

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Bouchard, David-Étienne. The non-modality of opinion verbs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.003.0005.

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This chapter is concerned with the interpretation of predicates of personal taste and epistemic modals. Specifically, I argue that while there are some interpretive similarities between the two, they do not warrant the unified treatment that they receive in Stephenson (2007) and others. I show that the relevant judge for predicates of personal taste and the relevant knower for epistemic modals can only be assigned by non-overlapping syntactic means. More specifically, epistemic verbs do not necessarily shift the judge of their embedded clause, and opinion verbs are not licensed by the presence of an epistemic modal in the complement, only by a true predicate of personal taste. I therefore argue that the interpretation of epistemic modals should not contain any reference to a judge index, and that judge dependency should not be accounted for using the mechanisms of modal semantics.
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Paul, Pentland Alex, ed. From pixels to predicates: Recent advances in computational and robotic vision. Norwood, N.J: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1986.

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Glanzberg, Michael. Lexical Meaning, Concepts, and the Metasemantics of Predicates. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739548.003.0007.

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This chapter examines how concepts relate to lexical meanings. It focuses on how we can appeal to concepts to give specific, cognitively rich contents to lexical entries, while at the same time using standard methods of compositional semantics. This is a problem, as those methods assume lexical meanings provide extensions, while concepts are mental representations that have very different structure from an extension. The chapter proposes a way to solve this problem which is by casting concepts in a metasemantic role for certain expressions, notably verbs, but more also generally, with expressions that function as content-giving predicates in a sentence.
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Rubinstein, Aynat. Straddling the line between attitude verbs and necessity modals. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.003.0007.

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This chapter explores the semantic properties of verbs and adjectives with closely related meanings having to do with desires and goals. I evaluate recent work on verbs of desire (e.g. ‘want’) which has suggested that these attitude predicates require access to multiple alternatives for their interpretation (Villalta 2006, 2008). I argue that this heavy machinery is in fact not required, integrating important insights proposed in this recent work into a quantificational modal analysis of comparison-based attitudes. The proposed analysis highlights the similarities and differences between ‘want’ and ‘necessary’, an adjective that is shown (including naturalistic corpus data) to be primarily goal-oriented and to be semantically dependent to a certain degree on the syntactic configuration it appears in. Whether or not the modality is lexically relativized to an individual is also suggested to play a role in defining the semantic properties of desire- and goal-oriented modal expressions.
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Perception, Especially Perception through Language. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717195.003.0014.

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Perceptual processing is translation of patterns in the data of sense into cognitive understanding without uniceptual inference. Understanding language differs from ordinary perceptual processing in that the signs it translates are detached rather than attached. This similarity is obscured because ordinary uses of the verbs of perception do not track a kind of psychological processing. Their use is mostly factive, which encourages overlooking the fallibility of perception. One result is the mistaken view that perceptual illusions are an anomaly and that perception is cognitively impenetrable. The assumption that each of the senses has its own proprietary level of perception and the assumption that differences in the result of perceptual processing are always accompanied by differences in perceptual experience are questioned. Finally, a number of intuitive objections to the idea that understanding language is a form of perceptual processing are discussed.
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Muller, Stefan. Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes). Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2002.

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Glanville, Peter John. Symmetry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792734.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 determines the semantic typology of patterns III and VI, sometimes termed the vowel-lengthening patterns. It asserts that verbs formed in these patterns are symmetrical predicates, denoting relations consisting of two complementary forces. It shows that the difference between the two patterns results from the interplay between an underlying symmetric relation and a figure–ground orientation in which one of the participant roles involved is made more prominent than the other. The chapter divides verbs formed in pattern III into verbs of resistance, risk, competition, interaction, and co-action, and those formed in pattern VI into reciprocal verbs, feigning verbs, chaining verbs, and verbs of progressive change. It argues that an account based on a common symmetric structure is able to unite this diverse range of verbs within one analysis, and it offers data from other languages to support this claim.
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The influence of the semantic categories of Egyptian verbs of perception and cognition on grammatical structure in late Egyptian. 1990.

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Iida, Takashi. Knowledge and Belief Through the Mirror of Japanese. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865085.003.0003.

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The author considers three Japanese verbs that may be the counterparts of the English “know” and “believe.” As verbs of thinking, they typically form mental predicates, which are sensitive to the difference in grammatical person in Japanese. He also shows how difference in person is connected to aspectual properties of these verbs. Some Japanese verbs for mental activities may take two sentential complements, one for their objects and the other for their contents. It is argued that the verb shiru, a counterpart of “know,” is one such two-complement verb. It is suggested that the object complement of shiru must be a definite noun phrase, and it is the source of the factivity of shiru. The two-complement structure of shiru and other Japanese verbs suggests that a mental activity may have its own object, as well as its content, and it is important to consider their relation to each other.
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Zimmermann, Malte. Predicate Focus. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.26.

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This chapter discusses a grammatically defined sub-class of focus: that on verbal predicates and on functional elements in the extended verbal projection. The phenomena falling under the label ofpredicate focusare introduced, and it is shown that predicate focus is interpretable on a par with argument or term focus on DPs and PPs. A unified structured-meaning approach that treats focus as the psychological predicate of the clause allows for singling out DP-terms and transitive verbs as categories in need of explicit marking when focused. A cross-linguistic overview of the grammatical strategies for marking predicate focus is provided, focusing on asymmetries in the realization of predicate as opposed to in terms of obligatory marking, grammatical strategy, and complexity. The information-structural and grammatical factors behind such focus asymmetries are discussed with some tentative universals concerning the explicit marking of information-structural categories on verbal predicates.
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Wellwood, Alexis. The Meaning of More. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804659.001.0001.

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This book re-imagines the compositional semantics of comparative constructions with words like “more”. It argues for a revision of one of the fundamental assumptions of the degree semantics framework as applied to such constructions: that gradable adjectives do not lexicalize measure functions (i.e., mappings from individuals or events to degrees). Instead, the degree morphology itself plays the role of degree introduction. The book begins with a careful study of non-canonical comparatives targeting nouns and verbs, and applies the lessons learned there to those targeting adjectives and adverbs. A primary distinction that the book draws extends the traditional distinction between gradable and non-gradable as applied to the adjectival domain to the distinction between “measurable” and “non-measurable” predicates that crosses lexical categories. The measurable predicates, in addition to the gradable adjectives, include mass noun phrases, plural noun phrases, imperfective verb phrases, and perfective atelic verb phrases. In each of these cases, independent evidence for non-trivial ordering relations on the relevant domains of predication are discussed, and measurability is tied to the accessibility of such orderings. Applying this compositional theory to the core cases and beyond, the book establishes that the selection of measure functions for a given comparative depends entirely on what is measured and compared rather than which expression introduces the measurement
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Hu, Xuhui. Resultatives at synchronic and diachronic levels. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808466.003.0005.

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This chapter investigates how a theory of events can be combined and be compatible with the theory of parametric variation in the generative tradition. At the diachronic level, Chinese resultatives developed from serial verb constructions with two subjacent verbal predicates in Old Chinese. The two adjacent verbs are reanalyzed as components of a single de-adjectival verb in the period of Middle Chinese due to language acquirers’ preference for structural simplicity. At the synchronic level, the preference for computational efficiency is also responsible for the fact that English style resultatives are not attested in Chinese. The English style resultatives are not attested in Romance languages due to a property in the lexicon of Romance languages: the valuation of the [uDiv] feature, or verbal feature, has to be achieved via incorporation in Romance languages, thus rejecting the operation of feature sharing that is crucial for the derivation of the English-style resultatives.
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Danckaert, Lieven. Multiple object positions and how to diagnose them. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759522.003.0003.

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This chapter addresses the question of which syntactic environment constitutes the most reliable source of information on variable object placement in Latin. The relevance of this question is illustrated by showing that very different results are obtained when one compares the rate of VO in two different syntactic contexts, namely clauses with a single synthetic verb and clauses with a modal verb and a dependent infinitive. It is argued that the OV/VO alternation is best studied to clauses with more than one verb, as in such clauses, more object positions can be unambiguously identified. The final part of the chapter is devoted to the phrase structure analysis of clauses with the modals possum ‘be able’ and debeo ‘have to’. These structures are argued to constitute monoclausal domains, in which the modals are raising predicates that originate in functional heads in the extended projection of lexical verbs.
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Woolford, Ellen. Split Ergativity in Syntax and at Morphological Spellout. Edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Demena Travis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.9.

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In a split ergative case pattern, not all subjects that could be marked with ergative case are. A language with a split ergative case pattern is called a split ergative language, but linguists disagree as to what other properties qualify a language as split ergative: an ergative case pattern in combination with a nominative-accusative agreement pattern, or an ergative case and agreement pattern in a language where no syntactic rules make reference to ergative case, or a language with two classes of verbs, only one of which takes an ergative subject. This chapter illustrates the well-known types of ergative splits involving person and aspect, and a range of less well-known types involving stage versus individual level predicates, proximate versus obviate subjects, and different social contexts. Most ergative splits appear to be present in syntax, with the clear exception of person splits which are argued to be purely morphological.
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Maloney, J. Christopher. Direct Realism and Illusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854751.003.0008.

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The supposed problem of perceptual error, including illusion and hallucination, has led most theories of perception to deny formulations of direct realism. The standard response to this apparent problem adopts the mistaken presupposition that perception is indeed liable to error. However, the prevailing conditions of observation are themselves elements of perceptual representation, functioning in the manner of predicate modifiers. They ensure that the predicates applied in perceptual representations do indeed correctly attribute properties that perceived physical objects actually instantiate. Thus, perceptual representations are immune to misrepresentation of the sort misguidedly supposed by the spurious problem of perceptual misrepresentation. Granted the possibility that perceptual attribution admits of predicate modification, it is quite possible that perceptual experience permits both rudimentary and sophisticated conceptualization. Moreover, such treatment of perceptual predication rewards by providing an account of aspect alteration exemplified by perception of ambiguous stimuli.
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Stroud, Barry. Unmasking and Dispositionalism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809753.003.0014.

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This chapter presents a response to Mark Johnston’s ‘Subjectivism and Unmasking’, which was directed at the author’s book, The Quest for Reality. Johnston defends an ontological account of what colours are and explains how, on that view, it could be true that no colours belong to the everyday objects we perceive in the world. The author’s resistance to the subjectivity of colour perceptions and beliefs turns rather on the proper understanding of colour terms as predicates ascribing colours to objects, and not as names or terms referring to the colours. The chapter explains the main assumptions of the ‘Ramsey/Lewis’ theory of colour. It also considers how the complex relations we understand to hold among the contents of perception, thought, and belief stand as a challenge to all forms of dispositionalism.
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Brogaard, Berit. Beyond Seeing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495251.003.0008.

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Although the focus of this book is primarily on visual verbs and their relation to perception, one cannot help but wonder to what extent any of the lessons for the case of vision carries over to other perceptual verbs. Can we learn something from the semantics of ‘sound’, ‘hear’, ‘smell’, ‘taste’, and ‘feel’ about auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and bodily experiences? The author thinks that we can. Many of the points that apply to ‘seem’ and ‘see’ seem to carry over to other perceptual verbs. For example, ‘feel’ is different from the other perceptual verbs in a number of ways, perhaps because it can be used to describe such different experiential states as touch, bodily sensation, and emotion. However, as the author explains, there is an analogous argument from the semantics of ‘feel’ to the view that touch, bodily sensation, and emotion are representational.
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