Klaus Robering

List of John Benjamins publications in which Klaus Robering is involved.

Title

Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs

Edited by Klaus Robering

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 152] 2014. viii, 373 pp.

Articles

Robering, Klaus 2014 Preface Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, Robering, Klaus (ed.), pp. vii–viii | Preface

Robering, Klaus 2014 Abstract objects of verbs Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, Robering, Klaus (ed.), pp. 115–158 | Article

Verbs do often take arguments of quite different types. In an orthodox type-theoretic framework this results in an extreme polysemy of many verbs. In this article, it is shown that this unwanted consequence can be avoided when a theory of “abstract objects” is adopted according to which these… read more

Robering, Klaus 2014 Introduction: Events, arguments, and aspects Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, Robering, Klaus (ed.), pp. 1–62 | Article