Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2005

Togetherness

Alda Mari

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This paper investigates the notion of `togetherness' expressed by adverbials like together in English or ensemble in French. We show that the natural division between the main uses of these adverbials is aspectual: whereas achievements impose no significant restrictions, non-achievements demand that the eventualities that are grouped `together' be causally controlled or coordinated. In particular, contrary to what is frequently assumed in the literature, it is not sufficient that they occupy the same spatio-temporal location. This leads us to propose a new picture of togetherness, which accounts for the intuitions of `grouping' (Lasersohn) or `integration' (Moltmann) but puts them in a different perspective.

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halshs-00391080 , version 1 (03-06-2009)

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Jacques Jayez, Alda Mari. Togetherness. Sinn und Bedeutung 9, Nov 2004, Nijmegen, Germany. pp.155-169. ⟨halshs-00391080⟩
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