Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs

✍ Scribed by Klaus Robering

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 384
Series: Studies in Language Companion Series 152
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.

✦ Table of Contents

Klaus Robering: Introduction: Events, arguments, and aspects

Part I: Verb meaning and argument structure
1. Anton Benz: Ergativity and the object-oriented representation of verb meaning
2. Anne Bjerre and Tavs Bjerre: Grammatical metaphors and there-insertion in Danish
3. Klaus Robering: Abstract objects of verbs
4. Andrea C. Schalley: Object-orientation and the semantics of verbs

Part II: Aspect and aktionsart
5. Johannes Dölling: Aspectual coercion and eventuality structure
6. Volkmar Engerer: Phases in verbal semantics
7. Natalia Kotsyba: How light are aspectual meanings? A study of the relation between light verbs in Ukrainian
8. William B. McGregor: The ‘say, do’ verb in Nyulnyul, Warrwa, and other Nyulnyulan languages is monosemic
9. Peter Oehl: Predicate classes: A study in compositional semantics

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