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Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation

By Johannes , Dölling

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2008
ISBN
3110190664, 9783110190663
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (42862504 bytes)
Series
Language, Context, and Cognition
Edition
1
Pages
540\554
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-02-05 00:47:45

Description

This volume addresses the problem of how language expresses conceptual information on event structures and how such information can be reconstructed in the interpretation process. The papers present important new insights into recent semantic and syntactic research on the topic. The volume deals with the following problems in detail: event structure and syntactic construction, event structure and modification, event structure and plurality, event structure and temporal relation, event structure and situation aspect, and event structure and language ontology. Importantly, the topic is discussed not only on the basis of English and German but on the basis of other languages including Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, and Igbo as well. This volume thus provides solid evidence towards clarifying the empirical use of event based analyses.

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