Events, Phrases, and Questions
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Verlag OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199577781
- ISBN10 0199577781
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 266
- Sammlung Oxford Linguistics #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2011
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
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SprachwissenschaftEvents, Phrases, and Questions
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Buch Details
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.