On Bach’s “The Algebra of Events”

Susan Rothstein

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85308-2_2

On Bach’s “The Algebra of Events”

Susan Rothstein

Department of English Literature and Linguistics

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Abstract

Emmon Bach’s short 1986 paper was a milestone in the study of aspect, exploring the parallels between aspectual properties of verbs and verb phrases on the one hand, and the mass/count distinction on the other. As he himself points out, he was not the first to notice these parallels, but his paper played a crucial role in bringing the topic to the attention of semanticists and syntacticians. The paper identifies the issues which need to be explored, focusing attention on the nature of the relation between telicity and countability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	17-31
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85308-2_2
State	Published - 2022

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Name	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Volume	100
ISSN (Print)	0924-4662
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-034X

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Keywords

Boundedness
Count-mass distinction
Cumulativity
Events
Homogeneity
Telicity

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