Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-954433-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 638 g

This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event participants and the temporal properties associated with events. They examine the interface between event structure and the systems with which it interacts, including the interface between event structure and the syntactic realization of arguments and modifiers. Deploying a variety of frameworks and theoretical perspectives they consider central issues and questions in the field, among them whether argument-structure is specified in the lexical entries of verbs or syntactically constructed so that syntactic position determines thematic status; whether the hierarchical structure evidenced in argument structure find parallels in sign language; should the relation between members of an alternation pair, such as the causative-inchoative alternation, be understood lexically or derivationally; and the role of syntactic category in determining the configuration of argument structure.

Zielgruppe

The book will be of interest to students of syntax and semantics in linguistics, philosophy, and related fields at graduate level and above.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rappaport Hovav, Malka

Doron, Edit

Sichel, Ivy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel: Introduction

- Part I Lexical Representation

- 2: Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth levin: Reflections on Manner/Result Complementarity

- 3: Adele E. Goldberg: Verbs, Constructions, and Semantic Frames

- 4: Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport: Contact and Other Results

- 5: Martin Everaert: The Lexical Encoding of Idioms

- Part II Argument Structure and the Compositional Construction of Predicates

- 6: Irit Meir: The Emergence of Argument Structure in Two New Sign Languages

- 7: Elizabeth Ritter and Sara Thomas Rosen: Animacy in Blackfoot Implications for Event Structure and Clause Structure

- 8: Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni: Lexicon Versus Syntax Evidence From Morphological Causatives

- 9: Artemis Alexiadou: On the Morphosyntax of (Anti-)Causative Verbs

- 10: Idan Landau: Saturated Adjectives, Reified Properties

- Part III Syntactic and Semantic Composition of Event Structure

- 11: Fred Landman and Susan Rothstein: Incremental homegeneity and the Semantics of Aspectual for-phrases

- 12: Anita Mittwoch: Event Measurement and Containment

- 13: Geoffrey Horrocks and melita Stavrou: Morphological Aspect and the Function and Distribution of Cognate Objects Across Languages

- 14: Hagit Borer: Locales

- 15: Nora Boneh and Edit Doron: Modal and Temporal Aspects of Habituality

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Malka Rappaport Hovav teaches in the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her books include Argument Realization (CUP 2005) and Unaccusativity (MIT Press 1995), written along with Beth Levin.

Edit Doron teaches in the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has written widely on the syntax and semantics of English and Semitic languages.

Ivy Sichel teaches in the Department of Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her interests include comparative syntax, the structure of noun phrases, and the syntax-semantics interface.