The normal course of events / Hagit Borer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borer, Hagit.

Series:

Borer, Hagit. Structuring sense ; v. 2.

Oxford linguistics

Structuring sense ; v. 2

Oxford linguistics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Structuring Sense' explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure from memory of words to manipulation of rules.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Contents to Volume I; Abbreviations; A Note on Transcription; Part I: Setting Course; 1 Exo-Skeletal Explanations-A Recap; 1.1 How Grammatical are Words?; 1.2 Functional Structure and the Architecture of Heads; 1.3 A Note on Inflection; 1.4 A Note on Idioms; 2 Why Events?; 2.1 Variable-behaviour Verbs; 2.2 But Why Aktionsart?; 2.3 UTAH?; 2.4 Severing the Internal Argument from its Verb; Part II: The Projection of Arguments; 3 Structuring Telicity; 3.1 Preliminaries; 3.2 Structuring Quantity; 3.3 Prepositional Licensing; 4 (A)structuring Atelicity; 4.1 Where Are We?

4.2 Atelic Transitives and Partitive Case4.3 Impersonal Null Subjects and the Unaccusative-Unergative Paradigm; 5 Interpreting Telicity; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Against Lexical Encoding; 5.3 To Quantity or to Quantize?; 5.4 Scalar Representations and Telicity; 6 Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm; 6.1 From the Head to the Specifier: Quantity prefixes and DP interpretation; 6.2 Against Atelic Agreement; 6.3 Licensing DP-internal Structure; 7 Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization; 7.1 Slavic Intransitive Perfectives; 7.2 Does the Perfective Mark Quantity?

7.3 Telicity Without Verkuyl's Generalization-English8 How Fine-Grained?; 8.1 Preliminaries; 8.2 What Gets Modified?; 8.3 A Somewhat Speculative Note on the Conceptual Status of Some Predicate Modifiers; Part III: Locatives and Event Structure; 9 The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives; 9.1 Introduction: Post-verbal Nominatives; 9.2 Projecting the Event Argument; 9.3 Assigning Range to 〈e〉[sub(E)]-The Locative Paradigm; 9.4 Why Locatives?; 9.5 Why a Weak Subject?; 9.6 Transitive Expletives? In Hebrew??; 9.7 Conclusion; 10 Slavification and Unaccusatives

10.1 Re-Examining the Paradigm10.2 And Returning to Erupting Riots; 10.3 Achievements?; 10.4 Summary; 11 Forward Oh!; 11.1 Inter-Language and Intra-Language Variation; 11.2 Some Final Notes on the Nature of Listemes; References; Index; Index of Languages; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Index of Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Notes:

Vol. no. from spine.

Series statement from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-373) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612199165

0-19-926391-4

1-4356-2228-6

9786610905348

OCLC:

271578671