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Author : Nikolas Gisborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019957779X
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Author : Jan Voorst
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027235538
This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. However, events are not defined in temporal terms but in spatial terms. This means that they are defined in terms of the entity that can be used to identify their beginning and the entity that can be used to identify their end. These two entitites are denoted by the subject and the direct object-NP respectively. The name of the event is provided by the verb. It is these three notions that make up Event Structure: the entity denoting the beginning, i.e. the object of origin; the entity denoting the end, i.e. the object of termination; and the event itself. The three primitives are independently motivated in the domain of tense interpretations of sentences. Their presence or absence affects these interpretations in a systematic way.
Author : Anita Bartulović
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
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ISBN : 3031566467
Author : ROXANA UTALE
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 6061611501
C U P R I N S Florica BECHET, LA CHROMATIQUE DES AMOURS D’OVIDE Adela Livia CATANĂ, “SMELL OF MATRIX”: OLFACTORY IMAGERY AND DYSTOPIA IN THE HANDMAID’S TALE Ioana COSTA, ELECTRUM ÎN SEPTUAGINTA Aurora FIRŢA, L’IMMAGINE OLFATTIVA NEL PRIMO CAPRONI Alexandra Elena ILINA, PAS DE SENS SANS LES SENS Liviu FRANGA, SCRIITORUL PÂRVAN. SINESTEZII. Mariana FRANGA, EROSUL ÎN EPIGRAMA LATINĂ PRENEOTERICĂ: SPECTACOL DE LUMINI, CULORI, EMOŢII ŞI TEMPERATURI Sorana MAN, COVORUL ROŞU. SIMBOL ŞI PREVESTIRE A MORŢII ÎN TRAGEDIA AGAMEMNON A LUI ESCHIL Monica MANOLACHI, RAINBOW RHYTHMS IN CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN POETRY Luminița Mihaela NEAGU, THE USE OF PERCEPTION VERBS IN WITNESS STATEMENTS – A LEXICAL SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVE Paula PASCARU, GLASUL AVANGARDEI CHINEZE Toader SAULEA, LES COULEURS DE SURVIE DANS RITOURNELLE DE LA FAIM DE LE CLÉZIO Melania STANCU, METÁFORAS DE LA NATURALEZA INDÓMITA. VITALISMO E INTEGRALISMO EN LA NOVELA DE BENJAMÍN JARNÉS
Author : Antonia Rothmayr
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027289468
This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity; verbs that allow for a stative reading only; and verbs that seem to have an intermediate status (verbs of position and verbs of internal causation). The study concludes that there is a discrete boundary between stative and eventive verbs, excluding any intermediate status. Stativity arises because the aspectual operators DO and BECOME are absent in the lexical-semantic structure. Eventivity arises if one of these is present. A minimalist view on argument realization and event structure completes the book: Theta features on the arguments are checked against the aspectual heads within the verb phrase.
Author : Nikolas Gisborne
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004375295
In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne offers an account of verb meaning from the perspective of a model that treats language structure as part of the wider cognitive network.
Author : Antonia Rothmayr
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027255261
This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity; verbs that allow for a stative reading only; and verbs that seem to have an intermediate status (verbs of position and verbs of internal causation). The study concludes that there is a discrete boundary between stative and eventive verbs, excluding any intermediate status. Stativity arises because the aspectual operators DO and BECOME are absent in the lexical-semantic structure. Eventivity arises if one of these is present. A minimalist view on argument realization and event structure completes the book: Theta features on the arguments are checked against the aspectual heads within the verb phrase.
Author : Gabriel A. Radvansky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199898146
Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize the available psychological and neuroscience data surrounding it. This synthesis leads to new proposals about several traditional areas in psychology and neuroscience including perception, attention, language understanding, memory, and problem solving. Radvansky and Zacks have written this book with a diverse readership in mind. It is intended for a range of researchers working within cognitive science including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, and education. Readers curious about events more generally such as those working in literature, film theory, and history will also find it of interest.
Author : Melissa Bowerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004362827
In her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the semantics of nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early language acquisition. Bowerman also covers the learning of argument structure and expressions of end-state, with special attention to the adult speech that guides children, and hence also the role of typology in acquisition; how cross-linguistic variation affects, for example, how speakers represent ‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the relation of the Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the semantics of languages. Bowerman’s over-riding concern throughout is with how children come to master the first language being spoken to them by their parents and caregivers.
Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199248583
Examining the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, this book encompasses the full range of English verb classes, has a strong typological dimension and presents a model of event structure that breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts.