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Zusatztext this book is an outstanding and up to date collection of papers all dealing with telicity and more generally with aspect. Informationen zum Autor Violeta Demonte is Research Professor of Linguistics at the Spanish National Research Council. Her research has mostly concentrated on the areas of syntax and lexical semantics. Among her research topics are complement clauses, the syntax and semantics of adjectives, NP structure, aspect in secondary predication, and syntactic variation. She was the Director (with I. Bosque) of the Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española (RAE-Espasa Calpe, 5.500 p.) ; Louise McNally is Professor of Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Her research focuses on various aspects of nominal, verbal, and adjectival semantics, the semantics of modification, and more generally on the syntax/semantics and semantics/pragmatics interfaces. Her most recent book, co-edited with Christopher Kennedy, is Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse (Oxford, 2008). Klappentext This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages. Zusammenfassung This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally: Introduction Part I: Foundational Aspects of Event Structure: Telicity, change, and state 2: John Beavers: Lexical Aspect and Multiple Incremental Themes 3: Susan Rothstein: Another Look at Accomplishments and Incrementality 4: Christopher Kennedy: The Composition of Incremental Change 5: Evie Malaia and Ronnie Wilbur: Telicity Expression in the Visual Modality Part II: Event Structure in a Cross-categorial Perspective 6: Andrew Koontz-Garboden: The Monotonicity Hypothesis 7: Antonio Fábregas, Rafael Marín, and Louise McNally: From Psych Verbs to Nouns 8: Berit Gehrke: Passive States 9: Dongsik Lim and María Luisa Zubizarreta: The Syntax and Semantics of Inchoatives as Directed Motion: the case of Korean 10: Jaume Mateu: Conflation and Incorporation Processes in Resultative Constructions 11: William Snyder: Parameter Theory and Motion Predicates 12: María Luisa Rivero and Ana Arregui: Building Involuntary States in Slavic Bibliography ...
