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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Beavers, John,; Cole, Peter,; Dimitriadis, Alexis,; Eckardt, Regine,; Egg, Markus,; Endriss, Cornelia,; Gao, Meijia,; Glasbey, Sheila,; Hinterwimmer, Stefan,; Kratzer, Angelika,; Lin, Jo-wang,; Malink, Marko,; McCready, Eric,; Meulen, Alice G. Β. ter,; Morzycki, Marcin,; Nakanishi, Kimiko,; Nishida, Chiyo,; Piñón, Christopher,; Rawlins, Kyle,; Rothstein, Susan,; Soh, Hooi Ling,; Son, Minjeong,; Sæbø, Kjell Johan,; Tanaka, Eri,; Williams, Alexander,
• HerausgeberIn: Dölling, Johannes,; Heyde-Zybatow, Tatjana,; Schäfer, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Language, Context and Cognition , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (531 p.)

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 Fors...

Table of 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