Studies in the composition and decomposition of event predicates /
This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates...
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Springer,
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Publisher Address: | Dordrecht ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2013. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; v. 93. |
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Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5983-1 |
Summary: |
This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure. The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to 'event structure' frameworks and mereological models. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 252 p.) : ill. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9789400759831 (electronic bk.) 9400759835 (electronic bk.) 9781299407718 (MyiLibrary) 1299407714 (MyiLibrary) |
Index Number: | P284 |
CLC: | H04 |
Contents: |
The (De)composition of Event Predicates / On the Criteria for Distinguishing Accomplishments from Activities, and Two Types of Aspectual Misfits / Lexicalized Meaning and Manner/Result Complementarity / Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-Verbs / Two Sources of Scalarity Within the Verb Phrase / Interaction of telicity and degree gradation in change of state verbs / On adverbs of (space and) time / The processing domain of aspectual interpretation / Event end-point primes the undergoer argument: neurobiological bases of event structure processing / |