Structuring Events A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect,9781405106672

Structuring Events A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781405106672
ISBN10: 1405106670
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-01-26
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings. Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions. Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories. Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.

Author Biography

Susan Rothstein is Professor of Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University. She has published widely on such issues as syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics interface. She is author of Predicates and Their Subjects (2000), and editor of Events and Grammar (1998) and Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing (1991).

Table of Contents

Preface vii
1 Verb Classes and Aspectual Classification 1(35)
1.1 Introduction
1(5)
1.2 Aspectual Classes of Verbs
6(23)
1.3 Can Verbs, as Opposed to VPs, be Aspectually Categorized?
29(7)
2 Progressive Achievements 36(23)
2.1 Introduction
36(2)
2.2 Progressive Achievements and the Imperfective Paradox
38(2)
2.3 Achievements are not Accomplishments
40(5)
2.4 Deriving Progressive Achievements
45(5)
2.5 Explanations
50(2)
2.6 The Problem of Incrementality
52(4)
2.7 Slow-motion Progressive Achievements
56(3)
3 Resultative Predication 59(32)
3.1 Introduction
59(1)
3.2 The Syntax of Secondary Predication: a Fast Review
60(5)
3.3 The Semantic Interpretation of Secondary Predication
65(10)
3.4 The Semantics of Resultativer
75(3)
3.5 Non-accomplishment Resultativer
78(4)
3.6 The Rest of the Questions
82(2)
3.7 Subject-oriented Resultativer
84(4)
3.8 Conclusions and the Next Set of Questions
88(3)
4 The Structure of Accomplishments 91(32)
4.1 Incremental Themes and the Notion of "Extent"
91(9)
4.2 A Theory of Accomplishments
100(16)
4.3 Kennedy and Levin: Telicity in Terms of Degree Measurements
116(7)
5 The Interpretation of Derived Accomplishments 123(25)
5.1 Aspectual Shift in Resultatives
123(13)
5.2 Aspectual Shift in Progressive Achievements
136(12)
6 Quantization, Telicity, and Change 148(9)
6.1 Quantization
148(1)
6.2 Krifka's Theory of Quantization
149(5)
6.3 Telicity and Change
154(3)
7 Telicity and Atomicity 157(26)
7.1 Telicity and Atomicity
157(1)
7.2 Events have their Denotation in the Count Domain
158(3)
7.3 Homogeneity and S-cumulativity in the Domain of Individuals
161(4)
7.4 Defining Sets of Atoms
165(3)
7.5 Atomic Structure in the Domain of Events
168(3)
7.6 Atomicity and BECOME Events
171(5)
7.7 A Note on Degree Predicates
176(1)
7.8 For a time and in a time
177(6)
8 Event Structure and Aspectual Classification 183(15)
8.1 What are Semelfactives?
183(4)
8.2 Why Does S-cumulativity Characterize States and Activities?
187(4)
8.3 Why Do We Have the Lexical Aspectual Classes that We Do?
191(4)
8.4 The General Picture: Lexical Aspect and the Structure of the Domain of Events
195(3)
References 198(4)
Index 202

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