Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation Book

Sect. I Event Structure and Syntactic Construction

Patients in Igbo and Mandarin Alexander Williams Williams, Alexander 3

Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese Jo-wang Lin Lin, Jo-wang 31

Syntactic decomposition of events in Korean and Standard Indonesian Minjeong Son Son, Minjeong Peter Cole Cole, Peter 55

Sect. II Event Structure and Modification

Unifying illegally Kyle Rawlins Rawlins, Kyle 81

Adverbial modification of adjectives: Evaluatives and a little beyond Marcin Morzycki Morzycki, Marcin 103

The structure of criterion predicates Kjell Johan Saebo Saebo, Kjell Johan 127

Reference to embedded eventualities Markus Egg Egg, Markus 149

Sect. III Event Structure and Situation Aspect

Two puzzles for a theory of lexical aspect: Semelfactives and degree achievements Susan Rothstein Rothstein, Susan 175

The notion of 'path' in aspectual composition: Evidence from Japanese Eri Tanaka Tanaka, Eri 199

Reflexive intransitives in Spanish and event semantics Eric McCready McCready, Eric Chiyo Nishida Nishida, Chiyo 223

Scalar complexity and the structure of events John Beavers Beavers, John 245

Sect. IV Event Structure and Plurality

On the plurality of verbs Angelika Kratzer Kratzer, Angelika 269

Event quantification and distributivity Kimiko Nakanishi Nakanishi, Kimiko 301

The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals Alexis Dimitriadis Dimitriadis, Alexis 327

Existential readings for bare plurals in object position Sheila Glasbey Glasbey, Sheila 355

Sect. V Event Structure and Temporal Location

Tense and adverbial quantification Cornelia Endriss Endriss, Cornelia Stefan HinterwimmerHinterwimmer, Stefan 389

Phase structure and quantification Marko Malink Malink, Marko 413

Cohesion in temporal context: The role of aspectual adverbs Alice G. B. ter Meulen Meulen, Alice G. B. ter 435

Mandarin sentential -le, perfect and English already Hooi Ling Soh Soh, Hooi Ling Meijia Gao Gao, Meijia 447

Sect. VI Event Structure and Natural Language Ontology

The lower part of event ontology Regine Eckardt Eckardt, Regine 477

Verbs of creation Christopher Pinon Pinon, Christopher 493

Portraits of the Authors 523

Index 527