Events, arguments, and aspects : topics in the semantics of verbs
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Events, arguments, and aspects : topics in the semantics of verbs
(Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 152)
John Benjamins, c2014
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Description
The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface (by Robering, Klaus)
- 2. Introduction: Events, arguments, and aspects (by Robering, Klaus)
- 3. I. Verb meaning and argument structure
- 4. Ergativity and the object-oriented representation of verb meaning (by Benz, Anton)
- 5. Grammatical metaphors and there-insertion in Danish (by Bjerre, Anne)
- 6. Abstract objects of verbs (by Robering, Klaus)
- 7. Object-orientation and the semantics of verbs (by Schalley, Andrea C.)
- 8. II. Aspect and aktionsart
- 9. Aspectual coercion and eventuality structure (by Dolling, Johannes)
- 10. Phases in verbal semantics (by Engerer, Volkmar)
- 11. How light are aspectual meanings?: A study of the relation between light verbs and lexical aspects in Ukrainian (by Kotsyba, Natalia)
- 12. The 'say, do' verb in Nyulnyul, Warrwa, and other Nyulnyulan languages is monosemic (by McGregor, William B.)
- 13. Predicate classes: A study in compositional semantics (by Oehl, Peter)
- 14. Index of names
- 15. Index of objects
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