Research Catalog

Title

Telicity, change, and state : a cross-categorial view of event structure / edited by Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Demonte, Violeta.
• McNally, Louise, 1965-
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
• Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Spain)

Description

xvi, 368 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Oxford linguistics
• Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 39

Uniform Title

• Oxford linguistics.
• Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 39.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology
• Linguistic change
• Modality (Linguistics)
• Linguistics > Methodology

Note

• "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].

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 13-2787

ISBN

• 9780199693498 (hbk)
• 0199693498 (hbk)
• 9780199693504 (pbk)
• 0199693501 (pbk)

LCCN

2012454704

OCLC

769989447

Title

Telicity, change, and state : a cross-categorial view of event structure / edited by Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally.

Imprint

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Oxford linguistics

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 39

Oxford linguistics.

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 39.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-356) and indexes.

Connect to:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693498.001.0001

Added Author

Demonte, Violeta.

McNally, Louise, 1965-

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)

Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Spain)

Other Form:

Electronic resource 9780191741715

Research Call Number

JFE 13-2787