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| Summary: | "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"--
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| ISBN: | 9004375295
9789004375291 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 25, 2020). |
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