"Structuring Events" presents a novel semantic theory of lexical
aspect. The first chapter provides an introduction to aspectual
classes and aspectual distinctions such as quantization and
cumulativity, stages and changes, and telicity and atelicity. Two
in-depth case studies of progressive achievements and resultative
predication form the basis of a new account of the lexical
semantics of accomplishments; this theory is then used in a new
analysis of the telic/atelic distinction. Throughout, the emerging
theory of aspect is extensively compared with alternative theories,
and the book concludes with general reflections on the semantic
structure of the lexical aspectual classes.
Written accessibly, "Structuring Events" is an invaluable
resource for semanticists or syntacticians interested in the study
of verb meanings, as well as for people in the neighboring fields
of pragmatics and philosophy of language.
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