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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.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics
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