''This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and…
Leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses appear plausible. The volume is organized into four thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure; sy…
Leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses appear plausible. The volume is organized into four thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure; sy…
Uniting work from philosophical, cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Truswell develops a model of the structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He predicts the acceptability of formulations, considers the individuation of events in the light of the model, and pro…
Uniting work from philosophical, cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Truswell develops a model of the structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He predicts the acceptability of formulations, considers the individuation of events in the light of the model, and pro…