17.2908, Books: Semantics/Syntax: Arsenijevi?

Fri Oct 6 12:48:10 UTC 2006

LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2908. Fri Oct 06 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.2908, Books: Semantics/Syntax: Arsenijevi?

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project / Long Now Foundation  
         <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <maria at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 03-Oct-2006
From: K. van den Heuvel < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: Inner Aspect and Telicity: Arsenijevi? 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:44:25
From: K. van den Heuvel < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: Inner Aspect and Telicity: Arsenijevi? 

Editor's note: This issue contains non-ISO-8859-1 characters.
To view the correct characters, go to http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2908.html.

Title: Inner aspect and telicity 
Subtitle: The decompositional and the quantificational nature of eventualities at the
syntax-semantics interface

Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl 

Author: Boban Arsenijevi?, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Electronic: ISBN: 9789078328131 Pages: 252 Price: U.S. $ free
Paperback: ISBN: 9789078328131 Pages: 252 Price: Europe EURO 24.11

Abstract:

The main topic of the book is the nature of inner aspect of the Verb
Phrase, and the relation between the decompositional and the
quantificational approaches to this problem. Decompositional approaches
analyze eventualities into simpler components, organized by some kind of
structure. In this view, an eventuality is telic if, in decomposition, it
can be shown to involve a result component (also referred to as the
culmination or termination component, or as the telos). Quantificational
approaches see telicity as a property of the predicate of an eventuality,
usually described as boundedness, lack of the subinterval property, or a
specified quantity. 

The major advantage of the decompositional approaches is that they directly
match the syntax-semantics interface of the VP with the conceptual image of
an eventuality. Quantificational approaches blur the picture in this
respect, because they involve effects like distributive readings, which are
not a typical interpretational component of the VP domain. On the other
hand, the major advantage of the quantificational approaches is that they
assign similar or identical properties to (the predicates of) eventualities
and nominal expressions. This enables them to capture the phenomenon of
incremental themes (participants that appear to measure out the eventuality
in which they take part), by relating the predicates of eventualities and
those of their arguments.

The dissertation presents a new approach, which not only combines the two
approaches above, but also shows how they are directly mutually related,
and how some quantificational properties can be derived from the domain of
decomposition. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=21622

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing          
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd.          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elda.org/sommaire.php	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Arnold          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates          
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.at	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Palgrave Macmillan          
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ 

	CSLI Publications
		http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc.   Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/ 

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 

	Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative Ltd.
		www.muurrbay.org.au 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	Peter Lang AG
		http://www.peterlang.com 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 

-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2908	