Asymmetric Events

Name: Asymmetric Events
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Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 15. Mai 2008

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Asymmetric Events
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Introduction
Event chains and complex events
Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences
1. Introduction
2 Corpus methodology
3 Verbs occurring in the English V and V construction
3.1 V and V sequences
3.2 The verbs in position V1
3.3 The verbs in position V2
4 Integrating V1 and V2
4.1 GO and TELL
4.2 GO and VISIT
4.3 GO and PROVE ME WRONG
4.4 TRY and V
5 Conclusion
References
Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language
1. Introduction
2 The viewing arrangement
3 Maximally subjective construal of subject of perception:
3. 1 The basic locative particle pair
3.2 The topographic particles
3.3 The topographic adverbs
4 Maximally objective object of perception
5 Highly objective construal of object of perception:
6 Mixed objective and subjective construals
7 Gateways for objectivizing the Subject of perception:
8 Conclusion
References
Spanish (de)queísmo
1 Introduction
2 Deviant uses?
3 The {Ø/de} alternation: a matter of viewing arrangement
4 The meaning import of the relational marker de
5 The nominal-verbal head analogy revisited
5.1 Predicative adjectives
5.2 Predicative nouns
5.3 Complex predicates
6 Construal alternation with verbal head: degrees of markedness
7. Translation: indirect evidence for a difference in relational profile
8 Possible inferences
9 Conclusion
References
What does coordination look like in a head-final language?
1. Introduction
2 General properties of the ko-construction
3 Ko-construction as a coordinate structure
4 Ko-construction as a subordinate structure
5 Reconciling parallelism and asymmetry
5.1 Structural ambiguity
5.2 Semantic correlates of structural ambiguity
6 Conclusions
References
Verb serialization as a means of expressing complex events in Thai
1 Introduction
2 Relations between events expressed by verbs in basic SVCs
3 Constraints on the serializability of verbs
4 An account of the constraints on serializability in terms of valence relations
4.1 Valence relations in cognitive grammar
4.2 Correspondences between verbs in SVCs
5 Conclusion
References
Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry
1 Introduction
2 Earlier studies
2.1 Parallel-function account (Sheldon 1974
Grober et al. 1978
Cowan 1980)
2.2 Reference-point account (van Hoek 1995, 1997)
2.3 Thematic-role account (Stevenson et al. 1994
Stevenson et al. 2000)
2.4 Eclectic Account (Kehler 2002)
3 Symmetric- and asymmetric-event descriptions
4 Connective-driven interpretations of pronouns
5 Another type of asymmetric-event description marker
6 Conclusion
References
Subordination, nominalization, modification
Subordination in cognitive grammar
References
Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories
1. Introduction
2 Event asymmetry as a feature of particular sentence types
3 Subordination as event asymmetry
4 The grammatical encoding of asymmetric events
5 Concluding remarks: Asymmetric events and subordination as a grammatical category
Abbreviations
References
Asymmetry reversal
1 Introduction
2 Desiderative and phasal structures in Toqabaqita
2.1 Finite complement clauses
2.2 Reduced structures
3 Constructions with finite complement clauses and with reduced structures compared
4 The suffix -qi
5 An alternative analysis
6 Asymmetry reversal?
Abbreviations
References
Transparency vs. economy
1 Introduction
2 Subordination: Typology and cross-linguistic variation
3. 'Versatile' subordinator èké in Adioukrou
4. What motivates the use of èké in Adioukrou?
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
References
Relating participants across asymmetric events
1 Introduction
2 General hypotheses
3 Syntactic and semantic-pragmatic determinants of control
3.1 Syntactic constraints on control
3.2 Conceptual and pragmatic constraints on obligatory control
3.2.1 Prototypical control
3.2.2 Non-prototypical control
3.2.3 The role of metonymic coercion
4 Conclusion
References
The Portuguese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis
1. Introduction
2 Grammatical properties and distribution of the inflected infinitive
3 From the infinitival clause to the finite clause: clines of imagery
4 The meaning of inflected infinitive: grounding and objectification
5 Semantic (in)compatibility and the distribution of the inflected infinitival clause
6 Conclusion
References
The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations
1 Introduction
2 Nominalizations as asymmetrical units?
2.1 Obligatory vs. optional realization of participants
2.2 Modification, complementation or phoric identification?
3 The 'event' semantics and its impact on the periphrastic inclusion of participants
4 Conclusion
Asymmetries in participial modification
1 Tertium comparationis and cross-linguistic equivalents
2 Sentence, clause, phrase
3 Participial modifiers
4 Present participle
4.1 Transitivity and word order (cf. Dziwirek & Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk forthcoming)
5 Past participle
6 Process/state
7 Passive and middle sequential scanning
8 Conclusions
References
Sources
Author index
Subject index
The series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research

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