Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-969350-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 588 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

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 of event structure by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages.
The book begins with an overview of the theoretical issues central to the volume, along with a brief presentation of the remaining chapters and the points of contact between them. The chapters, developed within several different theoretical perspectives, promote cross-theory as well as cross-linguistic comparison.

The work will interest scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition who are interested in the notions of telicity, change, and stativity.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition who are interested in the notions of telicity, change, and stativity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demonte, Violeta

McNally, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

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

Über Autor(innen)

Demonte, Violeta
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.)

McNally, Louise
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).