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Product details
- ISBN 9781405106689
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 174 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2003
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings.
- Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions.
- Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories.
- Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.
Susan Rothstein is Professor of Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University. She has published widely on such issues as syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics interface. She is author of Predicates and Their Subjects (2000), and editor of Events and Grammar (1998) and Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing (1991).
