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Author(s): Nikolas Gisborne
ISBN(s): 9780199577798, 019957779X
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Year: 2010
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ISBN 10: 019957779X 
ISBN 13: 9780199577798
Author: Nikolas Gisborne

This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition. Perception verbs – such as look, see, taste, hear, feel, sound, and listen – present unresolved problems for theories of lexical semantics. This book examines the relations between their semantics and syntactic behaviour, the different kinds of polysemy they exhibit, and the role of evidentiality in verbs like seem and sound. In unravelling their complexity Nikolas Gisborne looks closely at their meanings, modality, semantic relatedness, and irregularity. He frames his exposition in Word Grammar, and draws extensively on work in cognitive linguistics and construction grammar. After an opening chapter explaining the nature of the issues, Dr Gisborne presents a concise introduction to Word Grammar. He then considers the implications of his approach for a general theory of event structure. He looks at how the framework may be applied to causation, argument linking, and the modelling of polysemy. He examines the semantic similarities and differences between listen- and hear-class verbs, and analyses the cognate patterns of sound-class verbs. He concludes by drawing together his findings and exploring their implications for linguistic theory. Clearly and readably written, with each point of the argument illustrated with well-chosen examples, this book will appeal to linguists of all theoretical persuasions at graduate level and above.

The Event Structure of Perception Verbs 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 The Data
1.2.1 Three Classes of Perception Verb
1.2.2 Related Perception Verbs
1.2.3 Polysemy
1.2.4 Evidentiality and Epistemic Meaning
1.2.5 Non-Finite Complementation
1.2.6 The Temporal Semantics of Hear-Class Verbs
1.2.7 Summary and Interim Conclusions
1.3 Issues in Lexical Semantics and Event Structure in WG
1.4 Conclusions and Prospects

2 Word Grammar
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Reference
2.3 Dependencies and Words
2.3.1 Verbs’ Meanings as Nodes
2.4 Inheritance
2.4.1 Default Inheritance and the Type/Token Distinction
2.4.2 Multiple Inheritance
2.4.3 Inheritance and Relational Concepts
2.4.4 Inheritance and (Theories of) Polysemy
2.4.5 Inheritance as an Argument for a Discrete Syntax
2.5 Argument Linking; an Inventory of Dependencies
2.6 Language as a Network; Some Theoretical Consequences
2.7 Prospects

3 Causation and Relations Between Events: An Introduction to WG Semantics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Theories of Causation
3.3 Three Ways of Conceptualizing Events
3.3.1 The Localist Approach
3.3.2 The Aspectual Approach
3.3.3 The Causal Approach/Force Dynamics
3.3.4 The Approaches Compared
3.4 Causation in Word Grammar and Prospects
3.5 Relations Between Events
3.6 Causation and Semantic Relations
3.7 Sublexical Causation
3.8 Ditransitives
3.9 Ditransitive and Small-Clause MAKE
3.10 SHOW
3.11 Event Structure in WG and the Event Type Hierarchy
3.12 Conclusions

4 Network Structure and the Polysemy of SEE
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Reason 1
4.1.2 Reason 2
4.1.3 Reason 3
4.2 The Proposal
4.2.1 Evidence for Verbal Polysemy
4.2.2 The Sublexeme and Polysemy
4.3 The Basic Sense of SEE
4.4 The Propositional Senses
4.5 Conclusions

5 Perception Verbs and the Semantics of Content
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 The Organization of the Chapter
5.2 How LOOK/A and SEE are Related
5.3 The Themes of LOOK and SEE
5.3.1 The Theme of SEE
5.3.2 The Theme of LOOK
5.3.3 LISTEN
5.4 Is the PP a Complement or an Adjunct?
5.4.1 What is the Syntactic Relationship Between SEE and the Preposition Phrase?
5.5 The Force Dynamics of LOOK and SEE
5.5.1 A Force-Dynamic Characterization of SEE
5.5.2 Croft’s View
5.5.3 Langacker’s Perspective
5.5.4 Jackendoff
5.5.5 The Force Dynamics of LOOK/A
5.6 Discussion
5.7 The Temporal Dimensions of HEAR-class Verbs
5.8 The Aktionsart of HEAR-class Verbs
5.8.1 Duration Tests
5.8.2 Telicity Tests
5.8.3 Diagnostics for Homogeneity
5.8.4 Diagnostics for Dynamicity
5.9 Conclusions

6 Non-Finite Complementation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Syntactic Ambiguity and Semantic Differences
6.3 The Syntax of Bare Infinitive Complements
6.3.1 The WG Analysis
6.4 The Relationship Between the Events
6.4.1 Why do the Events have to be Co-Temporal?
6.4.2 Why must the Perceived Event be a Stage-Level Predicate?
6.4.3 Felser’s Constraints Revisited
6.5 Why Jane saw Peter Cross the Road Cannot be Passivized
6.6 The Grammar of the to-infinitive Variant
6.6.1 Noël’s Claim I
6.6.2 Noël’s Claim II
6.6.3 Noël’s Claim III
6.7 Veridicality, Referential Transparency, and Exportability
6.8 Conclusions

7 SOUND-class Verbs
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Semantics of SOUND-class Verbs
7.2.1 The Semantic Entries for SOUND
7.2.2 The Evaluative Semantics of the Evidential Senses
7.2.3 The to-phrase Data and ‘‘Experiencers’’
7.2.4 The Force Dynamics of SOUND-class Verbs and Aktionsarten
7.2.5 of Complements
7.3 LIKE Xcomps
7.3.1 LIKE/P
7.3.2 LIKE/C, AS THOUGH, and AS IF
7.3.3 The Syntax of Clausal LIKE
7.3.4 The Semantics of Hypothetical LIKE
7.3.5 Copy Raising
7.4 Conclusions

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