The Normal Course of Events

Hagit Borer

ISBN 10: 0199263922 / ISBN 13: 9780199263929

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

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: El libro 'The Normal Course of Events' de Hagit Borer explora la diferencia entre las palabras y las estructuras, demostrando que la explicación de la competencia lingüística debe cambiar de la entrada léxica a la estructura sintáctica y de la memoria de las palabras a la manipulación de las reglas. Su reformulación de cómo interactúan la gramática y el léxico tiene profundas implicaciones para las teorías lingüísticas, filosóficas y psicológicas sobre la mente y el lenguaje humanos. Este volumen integra resultados de investigación en sintaxis, semántica y morfología, mostrando que la estructura argumental se basa en la realización sintáctica de unidades de eventos semánticos. Los temas que aborda incluyen la estructura de los argumentos internos y de las interpretaciones telic y atelic, el caso acusativo y partitivo, el marcaje perfectivo e imperfectivo, la distinción inacusativo-inergativo, la interpretación existencial y los sujetos post-verbales, y las construcciones resultativas. Los idiomas discutidos incluyen inglés, catalán, finlandés, hebreo, checo, polaco, ruso y español. EAN: 9780199263929 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Filosofía|Educación Título: The Normal Course of Events Autor: Hagit Borer Editorial: Oxford University Press, USA Idioma: en Páginas: 418 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Normal Course of Events
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199263922
• ISBN 13: 9780199263929
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the first, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic, philosophical, and psychological theories about human mind and language.

Hagit Borer departs from both constructional approaches to syntax and the long generative tradition that uses the word as the nucleus around which the syntax grows. She argues that the hierarchical, abstract structures of language are universal, not language specific, and that language variation emerges from the morphological and phonological properties of inflectional material.

The Normal Course of Events applies this radical approach to event structure. Integrating research results in syntax, semantics, and morphology, the author shows that argument structure is based on the syntactic realization of semantic event units. The topics she addresses include the structure of internal arguments and of telic and atelic interpretations, accusative and partitive case, perfective and imperfective marking, the unaccusative-unergative distinction, existential interpretation and post-verbal subjects, and resultative constructions. The languages discussed include English, Catalan, Finnish, Hebrew, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.

About the Author

Hagit Borer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in 1981. She has held positions at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax.