Compositional Event Semantics in Pregroup Grammars

A derivational approach to event semantics using pregroup grammars as syntactic framework is defined. This system relies on three crucial components: the explicit introduction of event variables which are linked to the basic types of a lexical item's grammatical type; the unification of event variables following a concatenation of two expressions and the associated type contraction; and the correspondence between pregroup orderings and the change of the available event variables associated to a lexical item, which the meaning predicates take scope over.