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Author:   Robert Truswell (Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language, Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.426kg
ISBN:  

9780199685318

ISBN 10:   0199685312
Pages:   736
Publication Date:   26 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Robert Truswell: Introduction Part I: Events and Natural Language Metaphysics 2: Anita Mittwoch: Aspectual classes 3: Claudia Maienborn: Events and states 4: Robert Truswell: Event composition and event individuation 5: Richmond H. Thomason: The semantic representation of causation and agentivity 6: Bridget Copley: Force dynamics 7: Henk J. Verkuyl: Event structure without naïve physics 8: Berit Gehrke: Event kinds Part II: Events in Morphosyntax and Lexical Semantics 9: Nikolas Gisborne and James Donaldson: Thematic roles and events 10: Lisa Levinson: Semantic domains for syntactic word-building 11: Terje Lohndal: Neodavidsonianism in semantics and syntax 12: Gillian Ramchand: Event structure and verbal decomposition 13: Friederike Moltmann: Nominals and event structure 14: Rebekah Baglini and Chris Kennedy: Adjectives and event structure Part III: Crosslinguistic Perspectives 15: Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav: Lexicalization patterns 16: Tova Rapoport: Secondary predication 17: Tal Siloni: Event structure and syntax 18: Lisa deMena Travis: Inner aspect crosslinguistically Part IV: Events, Cognition, and Computation 19: Hans Kamp: Tense and aspect in Discourse Representation Theory 20: Andrew Kehler: Coherence relations 21: Mark Steedman: Form-independent meaning-representation for eventualities 22: Neil Cohn and Martin Paczynski: The neurophysiology of event processing in language and visual events

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The book contains supporting references and a helpful subject index at the end. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and above in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science. * G. C. Gamst, CHOICE *

Author Information

Robert Truswell is Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh, and Adjunct Professor in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, where he was Assistant Professor from 2011-14. He works on many aspects of syntax, semantics, and their interface, as well as syntactic and semantic change, and topics related to the evolution of language. His previous publications include the monograph Events, Phrases, and Questions (OUP, 2011), and the edited volumes Syntax and its Limits (OUP, 2014, with Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali) and Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017, with Éric Mathieu).

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