Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure

Edited by Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Draws together cutting-edge research
Combines general theoretical contributions with case studies
Considers data from English, Slavic, Korean, Spanish, ASL and other sign languages, and German

Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure

Edited by Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Description

This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects of event structure by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages.
The book begins with an overview of the theoretical issues central to the volume, along with a brief presentation of the remaining chapters and the points of contact between them. The chapters, developed within several different theoretical perspectives, promote cross-theory as well as cross-linguistic comparison.

The work will interest scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition who are interested in the notions of telicity, change, and stativity.

Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure

Edited by Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

1: Introduction, Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally
Part I: Foundational Aspects of Event Structure: Telicity, change, and state
2: Lexical Aspect and Multiple Incremental Themes, John Beavers
3: Another Look at Accomplishments and Incrementality, Susan Rothstein
4: The Composition of Incremental Change, Christopher Kennedy
5: Telicity Expression in the Visual Modality, Evie Malaia and Ronnie Wilbur
Part II: Event Structure in a Cross-categorial Perspective
6: The Monotonicity Hypothesis, Andrew Koontz-Garboden
7: From Psych Verbs to Nouns, Antonio Fábregas, Rafael Marín, and Louise McNally
8: Passive States, Berit Gehrke
9: The Syntax and Semantics of Inchoatives as Directed Motion: the case of Korean, Dongsik Lim and María Luisa Zubizarreta
10: Conflation and Incorporation Processes in Resultative Constructions, Jaume Mateu
11: Parameter Theory and Motion Predicates, William Snyder
12: Building Involuntary States in Slavic, María Luisa Rivero and Ana Arregui
Bibliography

Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure

Edited by Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Author Information

Edited by Violeta Demonte, Spanish National Research Council, and Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Violeta Demonte is Research Professor of Linguistics at the Spanish National Research Council. Her research has mostly concentrated on the areas of syntax and lexical semantics. Among her research topics are complement clauses, the syntax and semantics of adjectives, NP structure, aspect in secondary predication, and syntactic variation. She was the Director (with I. Bosque) of the Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española (RAE-Espasa Calpe, 5.500 p.) ; Louise McNally is Professor of Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Her research focuses on various aspects of nominal, verbal, and adjectival semantics, the semantics of modification, and more generally on the syntax/semantics and semantics/pragmatics interfaces. Her most recent book, co-edited with Christopher Kennedy, is Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse (Oxford, 2008).

Contributors:

Violeta Demonte, Spanish National Research Council
Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Ana Arregui, University of Ottawa
John Beavers, The University of Texas at Austin
Antonio Fábregas, University of Tromso
Berit Gehrke, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Christopher Kennedy, University of Chicago
Andrew Koontz-Garboden, The University of Manchester
Dongsik Lim, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Evguenia Malaia, Indiana University
Rafael Marín, Université de Lille 3
Jaume Mateu, Universitat Autònoma de barcelona
María Luisa Rivero, University of Ottawa
Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan
William Snyder, University of Connecticut
Ronnie Wilbur, Purdue Linguistics Program
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern California

Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure

Edited by Violeta Demonte and Louise McNally

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Reviews and Awards

"this book is an outstanding and up to date collection of papers all dealing with telicity and more generally with aspect." - Louis de Saussure, Dialectica