Events As Grammatical Objects - The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics, Logical Semantics

Klappentext This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the role of event structure in grammar. Zusammenfassung This work offers an interdisciplinary approach to the role of event structure in grammar. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Carol Tenny and James Pustejovsky; Part I. Foundational Issues in Event Semantics: 1. What lexical semantics reveals about the nature of events Beth Levin; 2. Events! predication! and Qualia structure James Pustejovsky; Part II. Grammatical Components of Complex Events: 3. The Quantization puzzle Hana Filip; 4. Events and thematic role assignments to affected objects Gregory Carlson; Part III. Event Structure and the Syntax and Semantics of Adverbs: 5. Some effects of manner adverbials on meaning June M. Wickboldt; 6. Manners and events Tom Ernst; 7. Core events and adverbial modification Carol Tenny; Part IV. Event Structure and Morphosyntax: 8. Event structure in syntax Lisa Travis; 9. Verb Frame alternations in Dutch and their acquisition Angeliek Van Hout; 10. Ergativity and event structure Elizabeth Ritter and Sara Rosen; 11. On lexical verb meanings: evidence from Salish Henry Davis and Hamida Demirdache; Part V. Grammaticalization of Events and Non-Events: 12. On the internal structure of stative psychological causatives in Finnish Liina Pylkkanen; 13. Anti neo-Davidsonianism Graham Katz; Part VI. Thoughts: 14. Where we are in the study of events in natural language Barbara Partee.

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• Authors: J. Pustejovsky, Carol Pustejovsky Tenny
• Assisted by: J. Pustejovsky (Editor), James Pustejovsky (Editor), Carol Tenny (Editor), Carol L. Tenny (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9781575862064
• ISBN: 978-1-57586-206-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes; Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics