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Events, Phrases, and Questions (Hardcover)
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Events, Phrases, and Questions (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
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This book examines some knotty problems in natural language. These
typically involve questions where the sense or the grammaticality
of an utterance teeters on or over the edge of acceptability among
native speakers. The phenomena in question have been examined
within syntactic theory for over two decades with no wholly
satisfactory outcome. Dr Truswell broadens the scope of the enquiry
to the interface between syntactic structure and other, indirectly
related, cognitive, and semantic structures such as aspect,
agentivity, and presupposition. Uniting work from philosophical,
cognitive and linguistic perspectives, he develops a model of the
internal structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He
deploys the model to explain and predict the acceptability of
particular formulations. He considers the individuation of events
in the light of the model and provides a novel account of patterns
of question formation. He shows that these patterns throw new light
on central claims of Chomsky's biolinguistic minimalist program and
Jackendoff's parallel architecture theory of mind and language.
This is work at the cutting edge of linguistic theory, catholic in
its theoretical scope, open to insights from cognate fields, and
illustrated with examples from a wide range of languages. It will
interest philosophers, semanticists and cognitive scientists
concerned with topics like events, agentivity, and planning, as
well as linguists studying syntax or the syntax-semantics
interface.
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