AGAINST A NEO-DAVIDSONIAN THEORY OF STATIVE VERBS

Graham Katz
Stanford University

Friday, October 13, 3:30 PM MJH Rm 126



In this talk, I will review the arguments for the Davidsonian event- argument position, demonstrate that these do not extend to state verbs and show that assuming that state verbs does not have such an argument position accounts for a number of the semantic contrasts between stative and eventive sentences.