Overview

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.

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Author:   Malka Rappaport Hovav (, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ,  Edit Doron (, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ,  Ivy Sichel (, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   No. 27
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.622kg
ISBN:  

9780199544332

ISBN 10:   0199544336
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   25 February 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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