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Zusatztext Hagit Borer's two volumes are a truly impressive achievement. She develops an original and careful theoretical framework, with far-reaching implications, as she describes. And she applies it in what have traditionally, and plausibly, been the two major domains of language: nominals and predication (event structure). The application is deeply informed and scrupulously executed, as well as remarkably comprehensive, covering a wide range of typologically different languages, and with much new material. No less valuable is her careful critical review of the rich literature on these topics, drawing from it where appropriate, identifying problems and developing alternatives within the general framework she has developed. These are sure to become basic sources for further inquiry into the fundamental issues she explores with such insight and understanding. Informationen zum Autor Hagit Borer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in 1981. She has held positions at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax. Klappentext Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes! of which this is the first! that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure! from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic! philosophical! and psychological theories about human mind and language. Zusammenfassung Exploring the difference between words and structures, this volume sets out to demonstrate, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure and from memory of words to manipulation of rules. It departs from both language specific constructional approaches and lexicalist approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Setting Course 1: Exo-Skeletal Explanations - a Recap 2: Why Events? 2. The Projection of Arguments 3: Structuring Telicity 4: (A)structuring Atelicity 5: Interpreting Telicity 6: Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm 7: Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization 8: How Fine-Grained? 3. Locatives and Event Structure 9: The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives 10: Slavification and Unaccusatives 11: Forward Oh! ...
