Ten lectures on event structure in a network theory of language

Ten lectures on event structure in a network theory of language / by Nikolas Gisborne.

"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 meanin...

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Main Author: Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Semantics, Comparative.
Semantics, Comparative
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Language and languages
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Table of 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.

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