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This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores the contribution of semantics to the argum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Croft, William, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The aspectual structure of events
  • Change, boundedness, and construal
  • The interaction of grammatical and lexical semantics: quantitative and qualitative analyses
  • Toward a force-dynamic theory of argument realization
  • Causal structure in verbal semantics and argument realization
  • The interaction of aspect and causal structure in verb meaning
  • Complex predicate constructions and the semantics of simple verbs
  • Verb meaning and argument structure constructions
  • Envoi.