Lexical semantics, syntax, and event structure [electronic resource] / edited by Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel

Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xvi, 401 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators:: Hovav, Malka Rappaport
Doron, Edit
Sichel, Ivy
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Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 27

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Ivy Sichel / Edit Doron / Malka Rappaport Hovav -- Pt. I Lexical Representation -- 2.Reflections on Manner/Result Complementarity / Beth Levin / Malka Rappaport Hovav -- 3.Verbs, Constructions, and Semantic Frames / Adele E. Goldberg -- 4.Contact and Other Results / Nomi Erteschik-Shir / Tova Rapoport -- 5.The Lexical Encoding of Idioms / Martin Everaert -- Pt. II Argument Structure and the Compositional Construction of Predicates -- 6.The Emergence of Argument Structure in Two New Sign Languages / Irit Meir -- 7.Animacy in Blackfoot: Implications for Event Structure and Clause Structure / Elizabeth Ritter / Sara Thomas Rosen -- 8.Lexicon versus Syntax: Evidence from Morphological Causatives / Julia Horvath / Tal Siloni -- 9.On the Morphosyntax of (Anti)Causative Verbs / Artemis Alexiadou -- 10.Saturated Adjectives, Reified Properties / Idan Landau -- Pt. III Syntactic and Semantic Composition of Event Structure -- 11.Incremental Homogeneity and the Semantics of Aspectual for- Phrases / Fred Landman / Susan Rothstein -- 12.Event Measurement and Containment / Anita Mittwoch -- 13.Draw / Christopher Pinon -- 14.Morphological Aspect and the Function and Distribution of Cognate Objects Across Languages / Melita Stavrou / Geoffrey Horrocks -- 15.Locales / Hagit Borer -- 16.Modal and Temporal Aspects of Habituality / Nora Boneh / Edit Doron.

Summary:

This text focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. It explores the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure.

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ISBN:

9780191720536 (ebook)
0191720534 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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