31.2765, Books: Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language: Gisborne

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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:30:46
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language: Gisborne

 


Title: Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language 
Series Title: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/36048 


Author: Nikolas Gisborne

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004375291 Pages: 305 Price: U.S. $ 114
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004358966 Pages: 305 Price: U.S. $ 114


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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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