The Syntax Of Aspect - Deriving Thematic And Aspectual Interpretation

Zusatztext an important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax ... this volume offers important insights into the structural and semantic underpinnings of the temporal and thematic properties of predicates, which take into account and are founded on a wealth of data from a range of languages. Informationen zum Autor Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997). She is writing The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Information Structure (forthcoming in Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology).Tova Rapoport is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is currently working on a theory of syntax-driven interpretation, including a book with Nomi Erteschik-Shir on the lexicon-syntax interface, The Atoms of Meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Nomi (EDT)/ Rapoport Erteschik-Shir
• Assisted by: Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Editor), Nomi (Ben-Gurion University) Erteschik-Shir (Editor), Erteschik-Shir Nomi (Editor), Tova Rapoport (Editor), Tova (Ben-Gurion University) Rapoport (Editor), Rapoport Tova (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2005
• EAN: 9780199280438
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928043-8
• No. of pages: 309
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc