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Verbs - Aspect and Causal Structure (Hardcover)
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Verbs - Aspect and Causal Structure (Hardcover)
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This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of
aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in
English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two
decades of the author's research and thought, it explores the
contribution of semantics to the argument-structure and
tense-aspect constructions in which verbs occur, integrating the
aspectual and causal structures of events. The argument is framed
in relation to current and previous scholarship and takes full
account of diachronic and usage-based research. Professor Croft's
analysis encompasses the full range of English verb classes and is
enriched throughout by a strong typological dimension: the syntax
and semantics of verbs are always seen from a crosslinguistic
perspective. This allows the author to demonstrate the generality
of his theory and to show how it breaks new ground in predicting
and explaining linguistic facts. The subject of the book is at the
heart of current work in syntax and semantics and the interface
between them. It will interest semanticists, syntacticians and
cognitive and functional-typological linguists. The transparency of
the author's style and his avoidance of theory-dependent constructs
will extend its appeal to linguists of all theoretical stripes.
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