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Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-semantics Interface
Carol Tenny
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Description for Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-semantics Interface
Hardback. Presents a theory of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax. This book features aspectual properties that figure in the linking between syntax and semantics, expressed through aspectual roles, assigned by a verb to its arguments. It focuses on aspect as central in the relation between lexical semantics and syntactic argument structure. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown beyond the dissertation in a number of important ways. The most important of these advances lie in, first, articulating aspectual roles as linguistic objects over which lexical semantic phenomena can be stated, and over which linking generalizations are stated; second, recognizing that syntactic phenomena may be classified ... Read more
All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown beyond the dissertation in a number of important ways. The most important of these advances lie in, first, articulating aspectual roles as linguistic objects over which lexical semantic phenomena can be stated, and over which linking generalizations are stated; second, recognizing that syntactic phenomena may be classified ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792328636
SKU
V9780792328636
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Reviews for Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-semantics Interface
`The book ... should be read by anyone interested in the lexical valency of verbs and in the interaction of grammar, semantics and pragmatics.' The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 65/66 (1996)