Verbs: Aspect and Causal Structure

by William Croft

Book Overview

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores the contribution of semantics to the argument-structure and tense-aspect constructions in which verbs occur, integrating the aspectual and causal structures of events. The argument is framed in relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199248583
• ISBN13: 9780199248582
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.7"