Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure
Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally
Abstract
This volume presents new work by leading researchers on a central theme in study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state, and the relation between them. The goal is to advance our understanding of these aspects of event structure by bringing foundational semantic research together with a series of case studies from a variety of languages that broaden the empirical base for testing theories of event structure by exploring telicity, change, and the notion of state not only within the verbal domain but also across a range of morpho-syntactic ... More
This volume presents new work by leading researchers on a central theme in study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state, and the relation between them. The goal is to advance our understanding of these aspects of event structure by bringing foundational semantic research together with a series of case studies from a variety of languages that broaden the empirical base for testing theories of event structure by exploring telicity, change, and the notion of state not only within the verbal domain but also across a range of morpho-syntactic categories.
Keywords:
incrementality,
telicity,
state,
parameter,
l-syntax,
change,
aspect,
resultatives,
passives,
nominalization
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199693498 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693498.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Violeta Demonte, editor
Spanish National Research Council
Louise McNally, editor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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