Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9789004358966
- ISBN-10: 900435896X
- Publisher: Brill
- Publish Date: September 2020
- Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Page Count: 306
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