All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown beyond the dissertation in a number of important ways. The most important of these advances lie in, first, articulating aspectual roles as linguistic objects over which lexical semantic phenomena can be stated, and over which linking generalizations are stated; second, recognizing that syntactic phenomena may be classified as to whether or not they are sensitive to the core event of event structure; and third, recognizing the modularity of aspectual and thematic/conceptual structure, and associating that modularity with a difference between language-specific and universal language generalizations. The three chapters of the book are organized around these ideas. I have tried to state these ideas as strong theses. Where they make strong predictions I have meant them to do so, as a probe for future research. I hope that other researchers will take up the challenge to investigate, test and develop these ideas across a wider realm of languages than I --as one person --can do.
| ISBN: | 9780792329077 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 1994 |
| Author: | Carol Tenny |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 246 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Linguistics Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics Grammar, syntax and morphology Semiotics / semiology |
All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins in my 1987 dissertation. However, this work has grown beyond the dissertation in a number of important ways. The most important of these advances lie in, first, articulating aspectual roles as linguistic objects over which lexical semantic phenomena can be stated, and over which linking generalizations are stated; second, recognizing that syntactic phenomena may be classified as to whether or not they are sensitive to the core event of event structure; and third, recognizing the modularity of aspectual and thematic/conceptual structure, and associating that modularity with a difference between language-specific and universal language generalizations. The three chapters of the book are organized around these ideas. I have tried to state these ideas as strong theses. Where they make strong predictions I have meant them to do so, as a probe for future research. I hope that other researchers will take up the challenge to investigate, test and develop these ideas across a wider realm of languages than I --as one person --can do.
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface features in the following genres: Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semiotics / semiology
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface is available in Hardback, Paperback
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface was written by Carol Tenny and published by Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands
Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface has 246 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy series