Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure Hardback
Edited by Malka (, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Rappaport Hovav, Edit (, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Doron, Ivy (, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Sichel
Part of the Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics No. 27 series
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This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers.
Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event participants and the temporal properties associated with events.
They examine the interface between event structure and the systems with which it interacts, including the interface between event structure and the syntactic realization of arguments and modifiers.
Deploying a variety of frameworks and theoretical perspectives they consider central issues and questions in the field, among them whether argument-structure is specified in the lexical entries of verbs or syntactically constructed so that syntactic position determines thematic status; whether the hierarchical structure evidenced in argument structure find parallels in sign language; should the relation between members of an alternation pair, such as the causative-inchoative alternation, be understood lexically or derivationally; and the role of syntactic category in determining the configuration of argument structure.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/02/2010
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- ISBN:9780199544325
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/02/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199544325
