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9780199685318

The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199685318

  • ISBN10:

    0199685312

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2019-05-21
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Robert Truswell is Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh, and Adjunct Professor in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, where he was Assistant Professor from 2011-14. He works on many aspects of syntax, semantics, and their interface, as well as syntactic and semantic change, and topics related to the evolution of language. His previous publications include the monograph Events, Phrases, and Questions (OUP, 2011), and the edited volumes Syntax and its Limits (OUP, 2014, with Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali) and Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017, with Eric Mathieu).

Table of Contents


1. Introduction, Robert Truswell
Part I: Events and Natural Language Metaphysics
2. Aspectual classes, Anita Mittwoch
3. Events and states, Claudia Maienborn
4. Event composition and event individuation, Robert Truswell
5. The semantic representation of causation and agentivity, Richmond H. Thomason
6. Force dynamics, Bridget Copley
7. Event structure without naive physics, Henk J. Verkuyl
8. Event kinds, Berit Gehrke
Part II: Events in Morphosyntax and Lexical Semantics
9. Thematic roles and events, Nikolas Gisborne and James Donaldson
10. Semantic domains for syntactic word-building, Lisa Levinson
11. Neodavidsonianism in semantics and syntax, Terje Lohndal
12. Event structure and verbal decomposition, Gillian Ramchand
13. Nominals and event structure, Friederike Moltmann
14. Adjectives and event structure, Rebekah Baglini and Chris Kennedy
Part III: Crosslinguistic Perspectives
15. Lexicalization pattners, Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav
16. Secondary predication, Tova Rapoport
17. Event structure and syntax, Tal Siloni
18. Inner aspect crosslinguistically, Lisa deMena Travis
Part IV: Events, Cognition, and Computation
19. Tense and aspect in Discourse Representation Theory, Hans Kamp
20. Coherence relations, Andrew Kehler
21. Form-independent meaning-representation for eventualities, Mark Steedman
22. The neurophysiology of event processing in language and visual events, Neil Cohn and Martin Paczynski

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