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  title info:
    title: Events, phrases, and questions
  name:
    name part: Truswell, Robert.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 245 pages)
  abstract: Uniting work from philosophical, cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Truswell develops a model of the structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He predicts the acceptability of formulations, considers the individuation of events in the light of the model, and provides an account of patterns of question formation.
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Where We're Going -- 1.2. Locality Theory and Extraction from Adjuncts: A Potted History -- 1.3. Further Puzzles -- 1.4. The Plan -- pt. I The Structure of Events -- 2. The Variable Size of Events -- 2.1. Variable Pragmatic Coarse-Graining -- 2.2. The Directness of Direct Causation -- 2.3. Aspectual Classes -- 2.4. Summary -- 3. Single Events from Multiple Verb Phrases and the Role of Agentivity -- 3.1. Events and VP-Coordination -- 3.2. Relations other than Direct Causation -- 3.3. Agentivity and Event Size -- 3.4. Planning and Enablement -- 3.5. Agentivity, Aspectual Classes, and the Progressive -- 4. Structures Built from Events -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The Problems -- 4.3. Dealing with the Problems.
  table of contents: 4.4. Events and Intervals in Syntax -- pt. II Events and Locality -- 5. Where We Stand -- 6. Extraction from Adjuncts -- 6.1. Rationale Clauses -- 6.2. Prepositional Participial Adjuncts -- 6.3. Bare Present Participial Adjuncts -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. Appendix: Preposition Stranding in Adjuncts -- 7. Extraction from Complement Clauses and the Effect of Tense -- 7.1. On the Impermeability of Tensed Adjuncts -- 7.2. Why Tensed Complements are Different -- 7.3. Factive Islands and Event Structure -- 7.4. Cyclic Determination of Event Structure -- 7.5. What Has Happened to the CED? -- 7.6. Summary -- 8. Architectural Issues -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Could We Syntacticize the Single Event Grouping Condition? -- 8.3. Integrating Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Movement -- 8.4. Conclusion -- 9. Conclusion.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Robert Truswell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Extraction (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Extraction (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: Syntaxe
  subject:
    topic: Linguistique
  subject:
    topic: linguistics
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Historical & Comparative
  subject:
    topic: Extraction (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Ergänzungsfragesatz
  subject:
    geographic: Englisch
  classification: P121
  classification: 415
  classification: 08.34
  classification: 17.52
  classification: 18.00
  classification: HF 296
  classification: H0
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    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics
    identifier: (UkYoU)001826151YOR01
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2010935045
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  record info:
    record content source: StDuBDS
    record creation date: 110512
    record change date: 20260318184925.4
    record identifier: in00005706537
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng