Event structure / / Jan van Voorst

• Autore: Van Voorst Jan
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1988
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb; Semantics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: EVENT STRUCTURE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABSTRACT -- Table of contents -- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Outline -- 1.2 Model of Grammar -- 1.3 Psychological Relevance -- 1.4 Contents -- NOTES -- CHAPTER II. EVENT STRUCTURE -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Stativity and the Progressive -- 2.3 Event Structure -- 2.4 Predecessors -- 2.5 The Nature of the Event in Event Structure -- NOTES -- CHAPTER III. THE SEMANTICS OF THE SUBJECT -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Intransitive Constructions -- 3.3 Transitive Constructions -- 3.4 Consequences -- NOTES -- CHAPTER IV. UNACCUSATIVITY -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Syntactic and Morphological Motivation for Unaccusativity -- 4.3 Semantic Arguments for Unaccusativity -- 4.4 Resultatives -- 4.5 Accomplishment Verbs -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 4.7 One Consequence -- NOTES -- CHAPTER V. PASSIVIZATION AND REFLEXIVIZATION -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Passive -- 5.2.1 Impersonal Passive -- 5.2.2 Personal Passive -- 5.2.3 Definitions of Stativity -- 5.3 An Aspectual Analysis of the French Reflexive -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 An Aspectual Interpretation of the Reflexive -- 5.3.3 Conclusion -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VI. INVOLVEMENT -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Semantics of Involvement -- 6.3 Unergative Intransitivization -- 6.4 Unaccusative Intransitivization -- 6.5 Achievement Verbs -- 6.6 Resultatives -- 6.7 The Affected Agent -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VII. TENSE -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Time Adverbs -- 7.3 Tense and Aspect -- 7.4 Some Extensions -- 7.5 The French Reflexive -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY (CILT) series.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Event structure
• ISBN: 1-283-04729-2; 9786613047298; 90-272-8618-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818226303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 59.