Overview
- Includes discussions of the processing aspects of the semantic ingredients of event predicates
- The role of scalar structures is shown to be more complex than traditionally assumed (one scale, simple mappings)
- Places the semantic entailments of event predicates and their more fine-grained components as the center of its study
Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Argument Structure
- Event Structure
- Lexicalized meaning
- On adverbs of (space and) time
- Oriented adverbs and object experiencer psych-verbs
- The (de)composition of event predicates
- The processing domain of aspectual information
- distinguishing accomplishments from activities
- semantic entailments of event predicates
- types of aspectual misfits
About this book
This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure.
The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to ‘event structure’ frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrasestructure.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Boban Arsenijević is a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Madrid. His interests cover different topics in syntax and semantics, including the issues of verbal aspect, clausal embedding, the nature of and mutual relations between syntactic categories and the comparative cognitive status of natural language.
Berit Gehrke is a Juan de la Cierva researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is interested in semantics and the syntax-semantics interface and has worked on topics related to event predicates, time and space, the kind-token distinction, and modification.
Rafael Marín (Ph.D in linguistics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001) is researcher of linguistics at the laboratory STL (UMR 8163), CNRS / Université de Lille 3. His work focuses on lexical aspect and related phenomena. He has mainly worked on stativity, non-verbal predication (nominalizations, adjectives and participles, copular constructions) and psychological predicates.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates
Editors: Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke, Rafael Marín
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5983-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5982-4Published: 19 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9801-4Published: 08 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5983-1Published: 26 February 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 252