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Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

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Authors:
  1. Carol L. Tenny

    1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 52)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Linking: Syntactic Argument Positions and Aspectual Roles

    • Carol L. Tenny
    Pages 1-130

  3. Event Structure and Aspectual Roles

    • Carol L. Tenny
    Pages 131-181

  4. Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles

    • Carol L. Tenny
    Pages 182-221

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 222-246
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About this book

All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown beyond the dissertation in a number of important ways. The most important of these advances lie in, first, articulating aspectual roles as linguistic objects over which lexical semantic phenomena can be stated, and over which linking generalizations are stated; second, recognizing that syntactic phenomena may be classified as to whether or not they are sensitive to the core event of event structure; and third, recognizing the modularity of aspectual and thematic/conceptual structure, and associating that modularity with a difference between language-specific and universal language generalizations. The three chapters of the book are organized around these ideas. I have tried to state these ideas as strong theses. Where they make strong predictions I have meant them to do so, as a probe for future research. I hope that other researchers will take up the challenge to investigate, test and develop these ideas across a wider realm of languages than I --as one person --can do.

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`The book ... should be read by anyone interested in the lexical valency of verbs and in the interaction of grammar, semantics and pragmatics.'
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 65/66 (1996)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Carol L. Tenny

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

  • Authors: Carol L. Tenny

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1150-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2863-6Published: 31 May 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2907-7Published: 31 May 1994

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1150-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 246

  • Topics: Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics

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