Structuring Events: A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect - Softcover

Rothstein, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405106689 ISBN 13: 9781405106689

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings.

• Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions.
• Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories.
• Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.

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About the Author

Susan Rothstein is Professor of Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University. She has published widely on such issues as syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics interface. She is author of Predicates and Their Subjects (2000), and editor of Events and Grammar (1998) and Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing (1991).

From the Back Cover

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect. The first chapter provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions such as quantization and cumulativity, stages and changes, and telicity and atelicity. Two in-depth case studies of progressive achievements and resultative predication form the basis of a new account of the lexical semantics of accomplishments; this theory is then used in a new analysis of the telic/atelic distinction. Throughout, the emerging theory of aspect is extensively compared with alternative theories, and the book concludes with general reflections on the semantic structure of the lexical aspectual classes.

Written accessibly, Structuring Events is an invaluable resource for semanticists or syntacticians interested in the study of verb meanings, as well as for people in the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.

Written accessibly, Structuring Events is an invaluable resource for semanticists or syntacticians interested in the study of verb meanings, as well as for people in the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405106689
• ISBN 13: 9781405106689
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224