William Croft

Verbs

Aspect and Causal Structure

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, taking full account of diachronic and usage-based research. It encompasses the full range of English verb classes, has a strong typological dimension, and presents a model of event structure that breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 182mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 997g
• ISBN-13: 9780199248582
• ISBN-10: 0199248583
• Artikelnr.: 34552707

Autorenporträt

William Croft is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. His books include Typology and Universals (CUP 1990, second edition 2003), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations (University of Chicago Press 1991), Explaining Language Change (Longman 2000), Radical Construction Grammar (OUP 2001) and Cognitive Linguistics (with D. Alan Cruse; CUP 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: The Aspectual Structure of Events
3: Change, Boundedness, and Construal
4: The Interaction of Grammatical and lexical Semantics: Quantitative and qualitative analyses
5: Toward a Force-dynamic Theory of Argument Realization
6: Causal Structure in Verbal Semantics and Argument Realization
7: The Interaction of Aspect and Causal Structure in Verb Meaning
8: Complex Predicate Constructions and the Semantics of Simple Verbs
9: Verb meaning and Argument Structure Constructions
10: Envoi
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