Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsAlexander Williams 'Patients in Igbo and Mandarin'
Jo-wang Lin: Event Decomposition and the Syntax and Semantics of the Durative Phrase in Chinese; Minjeong Son and Peter Cole: Syntactic Decomposition of Events in Korean and Standard Indonesian; Kyle Rawlins: Unifying Illegally; Marcin Morzycki: Adjectival Modification in AP: Evaluatives and a Little Beyond; Kjell Johan Sæbœ: The Structure of Criterion Predicates; Markus Egg: Reference to Embedded Eventualities; Angelika Kratzer: On the Plurality of Verbs; Kimiko Nakanishi: Event Quantification and Distributivity; Alexis Dimitriadis: The Event Structures of Irreducibly Symmetric Reciprocals; Sheila Glasbey: Existential Readings for Bare Plurals in Object Position; Cornelia Endriss/Stefan Hinterwimmer: Tense and Adverbial Quantification; Marko Malink: Event Based Phase Structures and Quantification; Alice G.B. ter Meulen: Cohesion in Temporal Context: The Role of Aspectual Adverbs; Hooi Ling Soh/Meijia Gao: Mandarin Sentential -le, Perfect and English Already; Susan Rothstein: Two Puzzles for a Theory of Lexical Aspect: Semelfactives and Degree Achievements; Eri Tanaka: The Notion of ‘Path’ in Aspectual Composition: Evidence from Japanese; Eric McCready/Chiyo Nishida: Reflexive Intransitives in Spanish and Event Semantics; John Beavers: Scalar Complexity and the Structure of Events; Christopher Piñón: Verbs of Creation; Regine Eckardt: The Lower Part of Event Ontology.
