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Telicity Change And State

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Author : Violeta Demonte
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-07

Telicity Change And State written by Violeta Demonte and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects of event structure by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages. The book begins with an overview of the theoretical issues central to the volume, along with a brief presentation of the remaining chapters and the points of contact between them. The chapters, developed within several different theoretical perspectives, promote cross-theory as well as cross-linguistic comparison. The work will interest scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition who are interested in the notions of telicity, change, and stativity.

The Roots Of Verbal Meaning

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Author : John Beavers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020

The Roots Of Verbal Meaning written by John Beavers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It presents a new theory of possible root meanings and their interaction with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, with semantic and grammatical properties determined not just by templates, but also by roots.

Degree Gradation Of Verbs

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Author : Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-05-20

Degree Gradation Of Verbs written by Jens Fleischhauer-Helfer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like "The boy loves his mother very much" and "The boy has grown a lot" reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably less attention in the literature than gradation of adjectives. The aim of the current volume is to explore the notion of verb gradation in more detail. The book presents a semantic as well as a syntactic analysis of verb gradation and combines three case studies with a general perspective on the phenomenon. Issues addressed in the volume cover, among others, the notion of scalarity in the verbal domain, the interaction of verb gradation with grammatical as well as lexical aspect and verb gradation as a subcompositional phenomenon. These topics are investigated from a cross-linguistic perspective. The languages of investigation include, among others, German, Russian and French.

Tense Aspect Modality And Evidentiality

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Author : Dalila Ayoun
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-08-15

Tense Aspect Modality And Evidentiality written by Dalila Ayoun and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the evolution of TAM systems through quantitative methods, while others carry out a collostructional analysis of past-tensed verbs using inferential statistics to explore the lexical grammar of verbs. A common goal is to uncover semantic regularities and variation in the TAM systems of the languages under study by taking a close look at context. Such a fine-grained approach contributes to our understanding of the TAM systems from a typological perspective. The focus on well-known Indo-European languages (e.g. French, German, English, Spanish) and also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Estonian, Avar, Andi, Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.

Telicity Change And State A Cross Categorial View Of Event Structure

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Author : Violeta Demonte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Telicity Change And State A Cross Categorial View Of Event Structure written by Violeta Demonte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.

French Anticausatives

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Author : Steffen Heidinger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-09-22

French Anticausatives written by Steffen Heidinger and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-22 with Foreign Language Study categories.

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

Proceedings From Semantics And Linguistic Theory

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Proceedings From Semantics And Linguistic Theory written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Linguistics categories.

Proceedings From Semantics And Linguistic Theory Ix

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Author : Tanya Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Proceedings From Semantics And Linguistic Theory Ix written by Tanya Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Linguistics categories.

Studies In Language Speech And Communication

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Author : Shōsuke Haraguchi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Studies In Language Speech And Communication written by Shōsuke Haraguchi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Linguistics categories.

The Gothic Resultative

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Author : R. Moses Katz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-02-01

The Gothic Resultative written by R. Moses Katz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Gothic is unique among Germanic languages in regards to the ways it expresses non-agentive actions. It both retains a formal passive and has two periphrastic passives. In addition it presents an intransitive verb class with generally inchoative meaning. R. Moses Katz examines the semantics of these categories and shows how they provide a robust non-agentive paradigm in Gothic, including a functional, result-state perfect in the passive. In two parts, he examines first the inchoative verb and then the periphrastic passive. He proposes that the development of both types is underpinned by a single argument structure based on the resultative, a coordinated event type that links a transition with a resulting state.