Causation in Grammatical Structures

Name: Causation in Grammatical Structures
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Bridget Copley · Fabienne Martin

2014年12月 · Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 第 52 本图书 · OUP Oxford

5.0

1 条评价

电子书

400

页

符合条件

评分和评价未经验证了解详情

关于此电子书

This book brings together research on the topic of causation from experts in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It seeks to arrive at a more sophisticated understanding both of how causal concepts are expressed in causal meanings, and how those meanings in turn are organized into structures. Chapters address some of the most exciting current issues in the field, including the relata of causal relations; the representation of defeasible causation within verb phrases and at the level of modality; the difference between direct and indirect causal chains; and the representation of these chains in syntax. The book examines data from a wide variety of languages, such as Tohono O'odham, Finnish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Karachay-Balkar, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists, as well as psycholinguists and philosophers, from graduate level upwards.

评分和评价

5.0

1 条评价

作者简介

Bridget Copley is a chargée de recherche at the laboratory Structures Formelles du Langage, jointly affiliated with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche and the Université Paris 8. Her research interests include the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of causation, aspect, futures, and modality. Copley received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author of The Semantics of the Future (Routledge, 2009). ; Fabienne Martin is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut für Linguistik of the University of Stuttgart. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006 from the Université libre de Bruxelles, and is the author of Les Prédicats statifs (De Boeck, 2009). Her research interests include lexical semantics, aspect and the semantics/pragmatics interface.