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Title
Event structure / Jan van Voorst.
Author
ISBN
9789027286185 (electronic bk.)
9027286183 (electronic bk.)
1283047292
9781283047296
9786613047298
6613047295
9027235538
9789027235534
9027286183 (electronic bk.)
1283047292
9781283047296
9786613047298
6613047295
9027235538
9789027235534
Imprint
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
P291 .V36 1988eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)709605929
Summary
This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. However, events are not defined in temporal terms but in spatial terms. This means that they are defined in terms of the entity that can be used to identify their beginning and the entity that can be used to identify their end. These two entitites are denoted by the subject and the direct object-NP resp.
Note
Revision of the author's thesis.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
EVENT STRUCTURE; ABSTRACT; Title page; Editorial page; Copyright page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER II. EVENT STRUCTURE; CHAPTER IV. UNACCUSATIVITY; CHAPTER III. THE SEMANTICS OF THE SUBJECT; CHAPTER V. PASSIVIZATION AND REFLEXIVIZATION; CHAPTER VII. TENSE; CHAPTER VI. INVOLVEMENT; CHAPTER VIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; INDEX; The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY (CILT) series.
Access Note
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 59.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Van Voorst, Jan. Event structure. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988
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