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Event structures in linguistic form and interpretation / edited by Johannes Dölling, Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow, Martin Schäfer.

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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 topic is discussed not only on the basis of English and German but on the basis of other languages including Mandari...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Dölling, Johannes, Heyde-Zybatow, Tatjana, 1973-, Schäfer, Martin, 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008.
Series:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb phrase.
Semantics.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Patients in Igbo and Mandarin / Williams, Alexander
  • Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese / Lin, Jo-wang
  • Syntactic decomposition of events in Korean and Standard Indonesian / Son, Minjeong ; Cole, Peter
  • Unifying illegally / Rawlins, Kyle
  • Adverbial modification of adjectives: Evaluatives and a little beyond / Morzycki, Marcin
  • The structure of criterion predicates / Sæbø, Kjell Johan
  • Reference to embedded eventualities / Egg, Markus
  • Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements / Rothstein, Susan
  • The notion of 'path' in aspectual composition: Evidence from Japanese / Tanaka, Eri
  • Reflexive intransitives in Spanish and event semantics / McCready, Eric ; Nishida, Chiyo
  • Scalar complexity and the structure of events / Beavers, John
  • On the plurality of verbs / Kratzer, Angelika
  • Event quantifícation and distributivity / Nakanishi, Kimiko
  • The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals / Dimitriadis, Alexis
  • Existential readings for bare plurals in object position / Glasbey, Sheila
  • Tense and adverbial quantification / Endriss, Cornelia ; Hinterwimmer, Stefan
  • Phase structures and quantification / Malink, Marko
  • Cohesion in temporal context: The role of aspectual adverbs / Meulen, Alice G. Β. ter
  • Mandarin sentential -le, perfect and English already / Soh, Hooi Ling ; Gao, Meijia
  • The lower part of event ontology / Eckardt, Regine
  • Verbs of creation / Piñón, Christopher
  • Short Portraits of the Authors
  • Index.

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