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- Provides substantial new results in the field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 68)
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This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument, aspect, focusing, negation, and negative quantification, among others. The results reported concern the telicising vs. perfectivizing role of the verbal particle; the syntactic and semantic differences of verbs denoting a delimited change, and those denoting creation or coming into being; evidence of viewpoint aspect in a language with no morphological viewpoint marking; the aspectual role of non-thematic objects; the source of the ‘exhaustive identification’ function of structural focus; the interaction of negation and aspect etc.
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Book Title: Event Structure and the Left Periphery
Book Subtitle: Studies on Hungarian
Editors: Katalin E. Kiss
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4755-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4753-4Published: 11 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4754-1Published: 31 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4755-8Published: 07 November 2007
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 304
Topics: Grammar, Syntax, Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics