Ten lectures on event structure in a network theory of language /
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| Author / Creator: | Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966- author. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12409627 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789004375291 9004375295 9789004358966 |
