The normal course of events

The normal course of events / Hagit Borer.

'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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borer, Hagit
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Borer, Hagit. Structuring sense ; v. 2.
Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: 1. Setting Course
  • 1. Exo-Skeletal Explanations
  • a Recap
  • 2. Why Events?
  • 2. The Projection of Arguments
  • 3. Structuring Telicity
  • 4. (A)structuring Atelicity
  • 5. Interpreting Telicity
  • 6. Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm
  • 7. Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization
  • 8. How Fine-Grained?
  • 3. Locatives and Event Structure
  • 9. The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives
  • 10. Slavification and Unaccusatives
  • 11. Forward Oh!

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