| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 531 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Language, context, and cognition ; v. 5 |
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Language, context, and cognition ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I Event Structure and Syntactic Construction -- Patients in Igbo and Mandarin -- Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese |
| Summary |
This volume addresses the problem of how language expresses conceptual information on event structures and how such information can be reconstructed in the interpretation process. The topic is discussed not only on the basis of English and German but on the basis of other languages including Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, and Igbo as well |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
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Semantics.
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Semantics
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semantics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
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Semantics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dölling, Johannes
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Heyde-Zybatow, Tatjana, 1973-
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Schäfer, Martin, 1975-
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| ISBN |
9783110190663 |
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3110190664 |
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3110925443 |
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9783110925449 |
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