Abstract
Donald Davidson has deeply influenced contemporary work on the semantics of action sentences and adverbial modifiers, mainly through his seminal papers on event analyses together with his related discussions of actions, events, and causation. This chapter will trace these contributions, beginning with Davidson's semantic proposals and then turning to his metaphysical views.An “action sentence” such as (1), in which the grammatical subject seems to be associated with a notion of agency, can be paraphrased as in (2).
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Donald Davidson |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 137-162 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780511610189 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0521793823, 9780521790437 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Arts and Humanities(all)