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Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation / ed. by Johannes Dölling, Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow, Martin Schäfer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language, Context and Cognition ; 5Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (531 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110190663
  • 9783110925449
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  • 415
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Event Structure and Syntactic Construction -- Patients in Igbo and Mandarin -- Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese -- Syntactic decomposition of events in Korean and Standard Indonesian -- Section II. Event Structure and Modification -- Unifying illegally -- Adverbial modification of adjectives: Evaluatives and a little beyond -- The structure of criterion predicates -- Reference to embedded eventualities -- Section III: Event Structure and Situation Aspect -- Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements -- The notion of 'path' in aspectual composition: Evidence from Japanese -- Reflexive intransitives in Spanish and event semantics -- Scalar complexity and the structure of events -- Section IV: Event Structure and Plurality -- On the plurality of verbs -- Event quantifícation and distributivity -- The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals -- Existential readings for bare plurals in object position -- Section V: Event Structure and Temporal Location -- Tense and adverbial quantification -- Phase structures and quantification -- Cohesion in temporal context: The role of aspectual adverbs -- Mandarin sentential -le, perfect and English already -- Section VI: Event Structure and Natural Language Ontology -- The lower part of event ontology -- Verbs of creation -- Short Portraits of the Authors -- Index
Summary: Dieser Band befasst sich mit dem Problem, wie konzeptuelle Information über Ereignisstrukturen in der Sprache ausgedrückt und im Interpretationsprozess rekonstruiert wird. Die in ihm versammelten Beiträge präsentieren wichtige neue Einsichten aus der gegenwärtigen semantischen und syntaktischen Forschung zu diesem Gegenstand. Im Einzelnen werden folgende Problembereiche behandelt: Ereignisstruktur und syntaktische Konstruktion, Ereignisstruktur und Modifikation, Ereignisstruktur und Plural, Ereignisstruktur und temporale Beziehung, Ereignisstruktur und Situationsaspekt sowie Ereignisstruktur und Sprachontologie. Hervorzuheben ist, dass die Thematik nicht nur anhand des Englischen und Deutschen, sondern auch anhand von anderen Sprachen wie dem Mandarin, Japanischen, Koreanischen, Indonesischen und Igbo diskutiert wird. Der Band liefert damit einen überzeugenden Beleg für die empirische Fruchtbarkeit von ereignisbasierten Analysen.Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Event Structure and Syntactic Construction -- Patients in Igbo and Mandarin -- Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese -- Syntactic decomposition of events in Korean and Standard Indonesian -- Section II. Event Structure and Modification -- Unifying illegally -- Adverbial modification of adjectives: Evaluatives and a little beyond -- The structure of criterion predicates -- Reference to embedded eventualities -- Section III: Event Structure and Situation Aspect -- Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements -- The notion of 'path' in aspectual composition: Evidence from Japanese -- Reflexive intransitives in Spanish and event semantics -- Scalar complexity and the structure of events -- Section IV: Event Structure and Plurality -- On the plurality of verbs -- Event quantifícation and distributivity -- The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals -- Existential readings for bare plurals in object position -- Section V: Event Structure and Temporal Location -- Tense and adverbial quantification -- Phase structures and quantification -- Cohesion in temporal context: The role of aspectual adverbs -- Mandarin sentential -le, perfect and English already -- Section VI: Event Structure and Natural Language Ontology -- The lower part of event ontology -- Verbs of creation -- Short Portraits of the Authors -- Index

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Dieser Band befasst sich mit dem Problem, wie konzeptuelle Information über Ereignisstrukturen in der Sprache ausgedrückt und im Interpretationsprozess rekonstruiert wird. Die in ihm versammelten Beiträge präsentieren wichtige neue Einsichten aus der gegenwärtigen semantischen und syntaktischen Forschung zu diesem Gegenstand. Im Einzelnen werden folgende Problembereiche behandelt: Ereignisstruktur und syntaktische Konstruktion, Ereignisstruktur und Modifikation, Ereignisstruktur und Plural, Ereignisstruktur und temporale Beziehung, Ereignisstruktur und Situationsaspekt sowie Ereignisstruktur und Sprachontologie. Hervorzuheben ist, dass die Thematik nicht nur anhand des Englischen und Deutschen, sondern auch anhand von anderen Sprachen wie dem Mandarin, Japanischen, Koreanischen, Indonesischen und Igbo diskutiert wird. Der Band liefert damit einen überzeugenden Beleg für die empirische Fruchtbarkeit von ereignisbasierten Analysen.

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.

Issued also in print.

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