17.2440, Books: Semantics/Syntax: Arche

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Date: 24-Aug-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Individuals in Time: Arche 

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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:57:51
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Individuals in Time: Arche 

Title: Individuals in Time 
Subtitle: Tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 94  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2094 

Author: María J. Arche

Hardback: ISBN: 9027233586 Pages: 281 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027233586 Pages: 281 Price: Europe EURO 115.00

Abstract:

This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates 
referring to individuals - the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates - in 
contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the 
traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded, 
this book claims, as it examines current theoretical issues concerning the 
syntax/semantics interface such as the relation between semantic properties 
of predicates and their syntactic structure. 

By using the contrast found in Spanish copular clauses (ser vs. estar), 
Individuals in Time shows that the conception of IL predicates as permanent 
and stative cannot be maintained. The existence of nonstative IL predicates 
is demonstrated through analyzing the correlation between the syntactic 
presence of certain projections (specifically, prepositional complements) and 
process-like aspect properties. This detailed examination of IL predicates in 
the domains of inner aspect, outer aspect, and tense will be welcomed by 
scholars and students with an interest in event structure, tense, and aspect. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgments  ix-x  
Foreword, by Tim Stowell  xi-xiii  
Presentation of the Study  1-4  
Individual-Level Predicates  5-38  
Event Classes and Individual-Level Predicates  39-81  
Aspectual Alternations in Individual-Level Predicates  83-145  
Outer Aspect and Individual-Level Predicates  147-192  
Tense and Individual-Level Predicates  193-237  
Conclusions and Final Remarks  239-259  
References  261-273  
Name Index  275-277  
Subject Index  279-281  

"This book is impressive in many ways. It offers an innovative and brilliant 
analysis of an old issue: Spanish copular sentences with ser and estar, and 
of the adjectives associated with them. It develops a strong case for a 
syntactic approach to aspectual alternations. Arche has succeeded in 
developing a new view of the event type and syntactic behaviour of IL 
predicates based on a fine-grained analysis of the functional syntactic 
structure of the copular sentences in which they occur. Her work has 
important implications for a constructional theory of the syntax-semantics 
interface. Moreover, the book reads like a novel and is an example of 
elegant deconstruction of arguments in order to build up a minimalist and 
integrative new approach." Professor Violeta Demonte, Universidad 
Autónoma de Madrid 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Generative Linguistics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Written In: English  (eng)

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