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Structuring Sense
Volume 2: The Normal Course of Events
Hagit Borer
416 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926391-2
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Hardback
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20 January 2005
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- A profoundly important work from one of the world's leading linguists
- Reformulates the relation between syntax and semantics
- Of importance for philosophical semantics and the psychology of language acquisition and behaviour
Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the second, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic, philosophical, and psychological theories about human mind and language.
Hagit Borer departs from both language specific constructional approaches and lexicalist
approaches to argue that universal hierarchical structures determine interpretation, and that language variation emerges from the morphological and phonological properties of inflectional material.
The Normal Course of Events applies this radical approach to event structure. Integrating research results in syntax, semantics, and morphology, the author shows that argument structure is based on the syntactic realization of semantic event units. The topics she addresses include the structure of internal arguments and of telic and atelic interpretations, accusative and partitive case, perfective and imperfective marking, the unaccusative-unergative distinction, existential interpretation and post-verbal subjects, and resultative constructions. The languages discussed
include English, Catalan, Finnish, Hebrew, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
Readership: Graduate students in linguistics, psychology and philosophy; scholars in linguistics, psychology and philosophy.
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Hagit Borer, University of Southern California
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"Syntacticians like Borer define the big research questions for the rest of us. Two provocative and inspiring books." - Angelika Kratzer "Hagit Borer's two volumes are a truly impressive achievement. She develops an original and careful theoretical framework, with far-reaching implications, as she describes. And she applies it in what have traditionally, and plausibly, been the two major domains of language: nominals and predication (event structure). The application is deeply informed and scrupulously executed, as well as remarkably comprehensive, covering a wide range of typologically different languages, and with much new material. No less valuable is her careful critical review of the rich literature on these topics, drawing
from it where appropriate, identifying problems and developing alternatives within the general framework she has developed. These are sure to become basic sources for further inquiry into the fundamental issues she explores with such insight and understanding." - Noam Chomsky
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1. Setting Course
1: Exo-Skeletal Explanations - a Recap
2: Why Events?
2. The Projection of Arguments
3: Structuring Telicity
4: (A)structuring Atelicity
5: Interpreting Telicity
6: Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm
7: Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization
8: How Fine-Grained?
3. Locatives and Event Structure
9: The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives
10: Slavification and Unaccusatives
11: Forward Oh!
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