Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language

By Nikolas Gisborne

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900435896X
• ISBN13: 9789004358966
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"