Overview

This book brings together research on the topic of causation from experts in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It seeks to arrive at a more sophisticated understanding both of how causal concepts are expressed in causal meanings, and how those meanings in turn are organized into structures. Chapters address some of the most exciting current issues in the field, including the relata of causal relations; the representation of defeasible causation within verb phrases and at the level of modality; the difference between direct and indirect causal chains; and the representation of these chains in syntax.The book examines data from a wide variety of languages, such as Tohono O'odham, Finnish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Karachay-Balkar, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists, as well as psycholinguists and philosophers, from graduate level upwards.

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Author:   Bridget Copley (Researcher, Researcher, CNRS and Université Paris 8) ,  Fabienne Martin (Researcher, Researcher, University of Stuttgart)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   52
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.716kg
ISBN:  

9780199672080

ISBN 10:   0199672083
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   18 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Bridget Copley and Fabienne Martin: IntroductionFrom Causal Theories to Causal Meanings2: Bridget Copley and Phillip Wolff: Theories of causation can and should inform linguistic theory3: Richmond H. Thomason: Formal semantics for causal constructions4: Max Kistler: Two types of causal statements5: Phillip Wolff: Force dynamics in causal meaning and reasoning6: Bridget Copley and Heidi Harley: Eliminating causative entailments with the force-dynamic framework: The case of the Tohono O'odham frustrative cem7: Tatjana Ilic: Modality and causation: Two sides of the same coin8: Paul Egré: Intentional action and the semantics of gradable expressions (on the Knobe Effect)From Causal Meanings to Causal Structures9: Fabienne Martin and Florian Schäfer: Causation at the syntax-semantics interface10: Gillian Ramchand: Causal chains and instrumental case in Hindi/Urdu11: Sergei Tatevosov and Ekaterina Lyutikova: Causativization and event structure12: Nigel Duffield: Inadvertent cause and the unergative-unaccusative split in Vietnamese and English13: Raffaella Folli: Causatives and inchoatives in the lexicon and the syntax: evidence from Italian14: Anja Latrouite: Event-structural prominence and forces in verb meaning shift

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Bridget Copley is a chargée de recherche at the laboratory Structures Formelles du Langage, jointly affiliated with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche and the Université Paris 8. Her research interests include the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of causation, aspect, futures, and modality. Copley received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author of The Semantics of the Future (Routledge, 2009). ; Fabienne Martin is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut für Linguistik of the University of Stuttgart. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006 from the Université libre de Bruxelles, and is the author of Les Prédicats statifs (De Boeck, 2009). Her research interests include lexical semantics, aspect and the semantics/pragmatics interface.

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