32.3532, Books: The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure: Truswell (ed.)

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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 09:23:51
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure: Truswell (ed.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure 
Series Title: Oxford Handbooks  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-event-structure-9780192845221?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Robert Truswell

Paperback: ISBN:  9780192845221 Pages: 736 Price: U.S. $ 45


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use
language to describe events.

The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most
successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and
syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial
intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions.
This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing
debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we
perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the
organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four
parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is
concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third
is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links
to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly.

The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from
linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science,
and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced
undergraduate level upwards.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=157593




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