Resumo

BARRERO, Tomás. Action and Logical Construction. Crítica (Méx., D.F.) [online]. 2013, vol.45, n.133, pp.3-26.  Epub 19-Mar-2020. ISSN 0011-1503.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2013.687.

By considering Davidson’s analysis of prepositions as defining individual events predicates, I argue against his semantics for action sentences and stress some logico-linguistic puzzles concerning both the interpretive pretension and the referential indifference of this proposal. Inspired by Evans as well as by Grice, I advance another interpretive semantics for those cases which does not take as assumption the individual character of events and argue for a constructivist approach to events in action discourse.

Palavras-chave : action sentences; events and prepositions; logical form and interpretive semantics.