Event Structure and the Left Periphery

Katalin É. Kiss

ISBN 10: 1402047541 / ISBN 13: 9781402047541

Published by Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Okt 2007, 2007

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Neuware -This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument, aspect, focusing, negation, and negative quantification, among others. The results reported concern the telicising vs. perfectivizing role of the verbal particle; the syntactic and semantic differences of verbs denoting a delimited change, and those denoting creation or coming into being; evidence of viewpoint aspect in a language with no morphological viewpoint marking; the aspectual role of non-thematic objects; the source of the ¿exhaustive identification¿ function of structural focus; the interaction of negation and aspect etc.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 316 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Event Structure and the Left Periphery
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Okt 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402047541
• ISBN 13: 9781402047541
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 160H x 18D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 508 grams

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This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument, aspect, focusing, negation, and negative quantification, among others. The results reported concern the telicising vs. perfectivizing role of the verbal particle; the syntactic and semantic differences of verbs denoting a delimited change, and those denoting creation or coming into being; evidence of viewpoint aspect in a language with no morphological viewpoint marking; the aspectual role of non-thematic objects; the source of the ‘exhaustive identification’ function of structural focus; the interaction of negation and aspect etc.