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The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

Robert Truswell editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:26th Mar '19

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This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly. The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

The Handbook presents a wide-ranging review of the linguistic literature on event structure. As a handbook on this topic, it definitely fulfills its goal * Luana Lopes Amaral, Linguist List *
The book contains supporting references and a helpful subject index at the end. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and above in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science. * G. C. Gamst, CHOICE *

ISBN: 9780199685318

Dimensions: 253mm x 177mm x 43mm

Weight: 1426g

736 pages