ISBN:
9789400759831
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 252 p. 21 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 93
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Studies in the composition and decomposition of event predicates
Keywords:
Semantics
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Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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Linguistics
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Linguistics
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Semantics
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Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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Verbalphrase
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Ereignissemantik
Abstract:
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 on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure.The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to ‘event structure’ frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrase structure
Description / Table of Contents:
Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The (De)composition of Event Predicates; 1.1 Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates; 1.2 Aspectual Composition; 1.2.1 Event-Argument Homomorphism; 1.2.2 Scales, Degrees, Generalized Paths; 1.2.3 The Contribution of the Verb vs. Other Elements; 1.2.4 Aspectual Tests, Coercion, Quantified Incremental Arguments; 1.3 Adverbial Modification; 1.3.1 Interaction with Event Structure; 1.3.2 Interaction with Scales; 1.3.3 Interaction with Temporal Structure; 1.4 Experimental Studies of Event Predicates
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1.5 ConclusionReferences; Chapter 2: On the Criteria for Distinguishing Accomplishments from Activities, and Two Types of Aspectual Misfits; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Criteria for the Distinction Between Activities and Accomplishments; 2.2.1 Telos; 2.2.2 The Subinterval Property (Homogeneity) and Cumulativity; 2.2.3 Specifying Temporal Extent; 2.2.4 Entailments Between Simple Tense and Progressive Sentences; 2.2.5 Result States; 2.2.6 Iteration; 2.2.7 Accomplishments Can Have Two Readings Where Activities Have Only One; 2.2.8 Partial Completion; 2.3 Accomplishments Entail Activities
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2.4 Delimited Situations Without a Predetermined Telos2.4.1 The Problem; 2.4.2 Hallman's Solution; 2.4.3 A Pragmatic Explanation; 2.5 Predicates with Selected Non-specific DPs; 2.5.1 (Unstressed) Some, a Few, Many/a Lot Of; 2.5.2 At Most, at Least; 2.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Lexicalized Meaning and Manner/Result Complementarity; 3.1 Manner/Result Complementarity: A Constraint on Verb Meaning?; 3.2 Manners, Results and the Relation Between Them; 3.3 Putative Counterexamples to Manner/Result Complementarity; 3.4 A Potential Counterexample from the Change of State Domain
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3.5 A Potential Counterexample from the Motion Domain3.5.1 The Manner Lexicalized by Climb; 3.5.2 Where Does the Inference of Upwardness Come From?; 3.5.3 Transitive Climb Does Not Lexicalize Direction; 3.5.4 The Direction-Only Use of Climb; 3.6 Potential Counterexamples Are Systematic, Even if Sporadic; 3.7 Concluding Words: The Lesson from the Problematic Verbs; References; Chapter 4: Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-Verbs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Subjective Adverbs: Typology and Ambiguities; 4.2.1 Dispositional Adverbs; 4.2.1.1 Introduction
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4.2.1.2 The Manner Reading: Two Previous Analyses4.2.2 Psychological Adverbs; 4.2.2.1 Ernst 2002; 4.2.2.2 Geuder 2000/2004; 4.2.3 Relative and Absolute Transparent Adverbs; 4.2.4 The Manner Reading of Adverbs with a Transparent Use; 4.2.5 Evaluative Reading; 4.2.6 Result Reading; 4.3 Subjective Adverbs and Weakly Agentive Predicates; 4.3.1 Convince Cleverly; 4.3.2 Convince Patiently; 4.3.3 Psychological Adverbs; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Two Sources of Scalarity Within the Verb Phrase; 5.1 Scalarity and the Verb Phrase; 5.2 Eventive and Evaluative Uses of Half
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5.2.1 Two Readings
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke & Rafael Marín: 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.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-5983-1
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