Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian

First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in compositional semantics, and what a syntax/semantics map which incorporated such objects might look like. Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Events; Chapter 3 Events, Quantification and Plurality; Chapter 4 Davidsonian Semantics; Chapter 5 The Devil in the Davidsonian Details; Chapter 6 Neo-Davidsonian Semantics; Chapter 7 Attempting to Justify Neo-Davidsonian Composition; Chapter 8 Argument Accessibility and Events; Chapter 9 Conclusion;