"Most of the chapters in this volume have developed from presentations made at the workshop 'Events across categories: Theoretical and experimental approaches to event structure' held at the CSIC's Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales in Madrid in May 2009"--P. [ix]. Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-356) and indexes.
Contents:
1. Introduction / Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally -- Part I: Foundational aspects of event structure: telicity, change, and state -- 2. Lexical aspect and multiple incremental themes / John Beavers -- 3. Another look at accomplishments and incrementality / Susan Rothstein -- 4. The composition of incremental change / Christopher Kennedy -- 5. Telicity expression in the visual modality / Evie Malaia and Ronnie B. Wilbur -- Part II. Event structure in a cross-categorial perspective -- 6. The monotonicty hypothesis / Andrew Koontz-Garboden -- 7. From psych verbs to nouns / Antonio Fábregas, Rafael Marín, and Louise McNally -- 8. Passive states / Berit Gehrke -- 9. The syntax and semantics of inchoatives as directed motion: the case of Korean / Dongsik Lim and María Luisa Zubizarreta -- 10. Conflation and incorporation processes in resultative constructions / Jaume Mateu -- 11. Parameter theory and motion predicates / William Snyder -- 12. Building involuntary states in Slavic / María Luisa Rivero and Ana Arregui.
Series:
Oxford linguistics Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 39
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