Events, arguments, and aspects. Topics in the semantics of verbs.

Robering, Klaus:

ISBN 10: 9027259178 / ISBN 13: 9789027259172

Published by Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014

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viii, 373 Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. C-06703 9789027259172 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1150.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Events, arguments, and aspects. Topics in the semantics of verbs.
• Publisher: Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027259178
• ISBN 13: 9789027259172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 1150 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • E Sprachwissenschaft - Allgemein

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Synopsis

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.