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Event structures in linguistic form and interpretation /

This volume addresses the problem of how language expresses conceptual information on event structures and how such information can be reconstructed in the interpretation process. The topic is discussed not only on the basis of English and German but on the basis of other languages including Mandari...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dölling, Johannes, Heyde-Zybatow, Tatjana, 1973-, Schäfer, Martin, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008.
Series:Language, context, and cognition ; v. 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section I Event Structure and Syntactic Construction
  • Patients in Igbo and Mandarin
  • Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese.