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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Arsenijevi<U+0007>, Boban. (Editor), Gehrke, Berit. (Editor), Marn̕, Rafael. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 93
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5983-1
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Boban Arsenijevi<U+0007>, Berit Gehrke & Rafael Marn̕: Introduction: The (De)composition of Event Predicates
  • 2. Anita Mittwoch: On the Criteria for Distinguishing Accomplishments from Activities, and Two Types of Aspectual Misfits
  • 3. Beth Levin & Malka Rappaport Hovav: Lexicalized Meaning and Manner/Result Complementarity
  • 4. Fabienne Martin: Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-verbs
  • 5. M. Ryan Bochnak: Two Sources of Scalarity within the Verb Phrase
  • 6. Jens Fleischhauer: Interaction of Telicity and Degree Gradation in Change of State Verbs
  • 7. Kyle Rawlins: On Adverbs of (Space and) Time
  • 8. Oliver Bott: The Processing Domain of Aspectual Information
  • 9. Evie Malaia, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Christine Weber-Fox: Event End-Point Primes the Undergoer Argument: Neurobiological Bases of Event Structure Processing.