The Natural Logic of Complex Event Expressions

A theory of events is required for the complete explanation of natural language referring expressions, since there are genuine event-referring expressions (e.g., in English). I give here an event theory first, based on expanding Kim’s (1969, 1973, 1976) conception of concrete events. Then, I show how reference, coreference, and quantfications over English event phrases (EPs) ought to be contained in representations of the ‘natural’ logical form of sentences they occur in.