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The processing of events /

Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion. Confronting alternative semantic accounts with experimental evidence, the author develops a comprehensive model of online aspectual...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bott, Oliver, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 162.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion. Confronting alternative semantic accounts with experimental evidence, the author develops a comprehensive model of online aspectual interpretation. The first part of the book critically reviews competing theoretical accounts of aspectual coercion. As an analytical tool the author introduces a computational model based on the event calculus by Hamm & van Lambalgen (2005) which makes use of planning formalisms from artificial inte.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 383 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027287977
902728797X
1282895834
9781282895836
ISSN:0166-0829 ;