The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly.

The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.
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The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly.

The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.
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The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

by Robert Truswell (Editor)
The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
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The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

by Robert Truswell (Editor)

Overview

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly.

The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199685318
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/21/2019
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 736
Product dimensions: 9.80(w) x 6.80(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

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 TruswellPart I: Events and Natural Language Metaphysics2. Aspectual classes, Anita Mittwoch3. Events and states, Claudia Maienborn4. Event composition and event individuation, Robert Truswell5. The semantic representation of causation and agentivity, Richmond H. Thomason6. Force dynamics, Bridget Copley7. Event structure without naive physics, Henk J. Verkuyl8. Event kinds, Berit GehrkePart II: Events in Morphosyntax and Lexical Semantics9. Thematic roles and events, Nikolas Gisborne and James Donaldson10. Semantic domains for syntactic word-building, Lisa Levinson11. Neodavidsonianism in semantics and syntax, Terje Lohndal12. Event structure and verbal decomposition, Gillian Ramchand13. Nominals and event structure, Friederike Moltmann14. Adjectives and event structure, Rebekah Baglini and Chris KennedyPart III: Crosslinguistic Perspectives15. Lexicalization patterns, Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav16. Secondary predication, Tova Rapoport17. Event structure and syntax, Tal Siloni18. Inner aspect crosslinguistically, Lisa deMena TravisPart IV: Events, Cognition, and Computation19. Tense and aspect in Discourse Representation Theory, Hans Kamp20. Coherence relations, Andrew Kehler21. Form-independent meaning-representation for eventualities, Mark Steedman22. The neurophysiology of event processing in language and visual events, Neil Cohn and Martin Paczynski
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