Event Structure and the Left Periphery: Studies on Hungarian

by Katalin ï. Kiss (Editor)

Overview

Katalin Kiss, of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, has brought together in this volume substantial new results in a novel field of research.

The text analyzes the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies contained in this volume test the hypothesis that event structure correlates with a number of things, including word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, and the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402047541
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/30/2007
Series:	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , #68
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Aims and Background.- The Function and the Syntax of the Verbal Particle.- Verbal Particles Telicizing Stative Psych Verbs.- Definiteness Effect Verbs.- Weak and Strong Accomplishments.- Particles and a Two Component Theory of Aspect.- From the Grammaticalization of Viewpoint Aspect to the Grammaticalization of Situation Aspect.- Accusative Case and Aspect.- Apparent or Real? On the Complementary Distribution of Identificational Focus and the Verbal Particle.- Aspect, Negation and Quantifiers.- Predicates, Negative Quantifiers and Focus: Specificity and Quantificationality of N-Words.