Event Structure and the Left Periphery Studies on Hungarian /

This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- sp...

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Other Authors: Kiss, Katalin É. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 68
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4755-8
Table of Contents:
  • Aims and Background
  • The Function and the Syntax of the Verbal Particle
  • Verbal Particles Telicizing Stative Psych Verbs
  • Definiteness Effect Verbs
  • Weak and Strong Accomplishments
  • Particles and a Two Component Theory of Aspect
  • From the Grammaticalization of Viewpoint Aspect to the Grammaticalization of Situation Aspect
  • Accusative Case and Aspect
  • Apparent or Real? On the Complementary Distribution of Identificational Focus and the Verbal Particle
  • Aspect, Negation and Quantifiers
  • Predicates, Negative Quantifiers and Focus: Specificity and Quantificationality of N-Words.