Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language
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| Title: | Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language |
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| Description: | In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne explores verb meaning. He discusses theories of events and how a network model of language-in-the-mind should be theorized; what the lexicon is; how to probe word meaning; evidence for structure in word meaning; polysemy; the lexical semantics of causation; a type hierarchy of events; and event types cross-linguistically. He also looks at the relationship between different classes of events or event types and aktionsarten; transitivity alternations and argument linking. Gisborne argues that the social and cognitive embedding of language, requires a view of linguistic structure as a network where even the analysis of verb meaning can require an understanding of the role of speaker and hearer. |
| Authors: | Nikolas Gisborne |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb, Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax, Semantics, Comparative |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne explores verb meaning. He discusses theories of events and how a network model of language-in-the-mind should be theorized; what the lexicon is; how to probe word meaning; evidence for structure in word meaning; polysemy; the lexical semantics of causation; a type hierarchy of events; and event types cross-linguistically. He also looks at the relationship between different classes of events or event types and aktionsarten; transitivity alternations and argument linking. Gisborne argues that the social and cognitive embedding of language, requires a view of linguistic structure as a network where even the analysis of verb meaning can require an understanding of the role of speaker and hearer. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004358966 9789004375291 |
