Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation

Published by De Gruyter 2008

Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation

Edited by: Johannes Dölling , Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow and Martin Schäfer

Volume 5 in the series Language, Context and Cognition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925449

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About this book

This volume addresses the problem of how language expresses conceptual information on event structures and how such information can be reconstructed in the interpretation process. The papers present important new insights into recent semantic and syntactic research on the topic. The volume deals with the following problems in detail: event structure and syntactic construction, event structure and modification, event structure and plurality, event structure and temporal relation, event structure and situation aspect, and event structure and language ontology. Importantly, the topic is discussed not only on the basis of English and German but on the basis of other languages including Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, and Igbo as well. This volume thus provides solid evidence towards clarifying the empirical use of event based analyses.

Author / Editor information

Johannes Dölling, Universität Leipzig; Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow, Universität Leipzig; Martin Schäfer, Universität Leipzig.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Section I: Event Structure and Syntactic Construction
Patients in Igbo and Mandarin Alexander Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese Jo-wang Lin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Syntactic decomposition of events in Korean and Standard Indonesian Minjeong Son and Peter Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Section II. Event Structure and Modification
Unifying illegally Kyle Rawlins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Adverbial modification of adjectives: Evaluatives and a little beyond Marcin Morzycki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The structure of criterion predicates Kjell Johan Sæbø Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Reference to embedded eventualities Markus Egg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Section III: Event Structure and Situation Aspect
Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements Susan Rothstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The notion of 'path' in aspectual composition: Evidence from Japanese Eri Tanaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Reflexive intransitives in Spanish and event semantics Eric McCready and Chiyo Nishida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Scalar complexity and the structure of events John Beavers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Section IV: Event Structure and Plurality
On the plurality of verbs Angelika Kratzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Event quantifícation and distributivity Kimiko Nakanishi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals Alexis Dimitriadis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Existential readings for bare plurals in object position Sheila Glasbey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Section V: Event Structure and Temporal Location
Tense and adverbial quantification Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Phase structures and quantification Marko Malink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Cohesion in temporal context: The role of aspectual adverbs Alice G. Β. ter Meulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Mandarin sentential -le, perfect and English already Hooi Ling Soh and Meijia Gao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Section VI: Event Structure and Natural Language Ontology
The lower part of event ontology Regine Eckardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Verbs of creation Christopher Piñón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Short Portraits of the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 531
Keywords: Adverbs; Events

eBook

Published: December 6, 2013
ISBN: 9783110925449

Hardcover

Published: March 18, 2008
ISBN: 9783110190663