Ten lectures on event structure in a network theory of language / by Nikolas Gisborne.
| Author/creator | Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] |
| Description | xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics, 2468-4872 |
| Contents | Event Semantics: A Network Model of Language Structure -- Parts, Wholes, and Networks; Idioms; Semantics, Syntax, Morphology -- Evidence for Structure in Verb Meaning -- Polysemy and Semantic Structure -- Events and Thematic Roles -- Resultatives and Causation -- Ditransitives and Verbs of Buying and Selling -- Classes of Events and Aspectual Class -- Conflation Classes, Transitivity Alternations and Argument Realization -- Situating Meaning in the Utterance. |
| Abstract | "In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne explores verb meaning. He discusses theories of events and how a network model of language-in-the-mind should be theorized; what the lexicon is; how to probe word meaning; evidence for structure in word meaning; polysemy; the lexical semantics of causation; a type hierarchy of events; and event types cross-linguistically. He also looks at the relationship between different classes of events or event types and aktionsarten; transitivity alternations and argument linking. Gisborne argues that the social and cognitive embedding of language, requires a view of linguistic structure as a network where even the analysis of verb meaning can require an understanding of the role of speaker and hearer"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020024553 |
| ISBN | 9789004358966 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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