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Event structure /
This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. How...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1988.
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 59. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. However, events are not defined in temporal terms but in spatial terms. This means that they are defined in terms of the entity that can be used to identify their beginning and the entity that can be used to identify their end. These two entitites are denoted by the subject and the direct object-NP resp. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027286185 9027286183 1283047292 9781283047296 9786613047298 6613047295 |