Hagit Borer

Structuring Sense

Volume II: The Normal Course of Events

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the second, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic, philosophical, and psychological theories about human mind and language. Hagit Borer departs from both language specific constructional approaches and lexicalist approaches to argue that universal hierarchical structures determine interpretation, and that language variation emerges from the morphological and phonological properties of inflectional material.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780199263912
• ISBN-10: 0199263914
• Artikelnr.: 24848151

Autorenporträt

Hagit Borer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in 1981. She has held positions at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax.

Inhaltsangabe

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!

Rezensionen

Syntacticians like Borer define the big research questions for the rest of us. Two provocative and inspiring books. Angelika Kratzer