The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure (Oxford Handbooks)

Truswell, Robert [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0199685312 / ISBN 13: 9780199685318

Published by Oxford University Press, 2019

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Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine: firm and square, strong joints, no bumps. Complete with original dustjacket: showing well, no tears, no chips. But note: this copy is retired from the publisher?s library, so just showing a stamp at the endpaper and a small number tag affixed to the foot of the spine. Despite such, looks and feels unread and is now offered for sale at very reasonable price. Seller Inventory # 207176

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Title: The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure (...

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 2019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly.

The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

About the Author:

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 Eric Mathieu).