Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure

387 Pages·2012·2.037 MB·English

by  Violeta Demonte, Louise McNally

Telicity, Change, and State
OXFORD STUDIES IN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
GENERALEDITORS
DavidAdger,QueenMaryUniversityofLondon;HagitBorer,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia
ADVISORYEDITORS
StephenAnderson,YaleUniversity;DanielBüring,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles;NomiErteschik-
Shir,Ben-GurionUniversity;DonkaFarkas,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz;AngelikaKratzer,Univer-
sityofMassachusetts,Amherst;AndrewNevins,UniversityCollegeLondon;ChristopherPotts,Stanford
University;BarrySchein,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia;PeterSvenonius,UniversityofTromsø;Moira
Yip,UniversityCollegeLondon.
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Telicity, Change, and
State
A cross-categorial view of event structure
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VIOLETA DEMONTE AND LOUISE MCNALLY
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Contents
GeneralPreface viii
Acknowledgments ix
TheAuthors x
AbbreviationsandAcronyms xiii
1 Introduction 1
VioletaDemonteandLouiseMcNally
1.1 Telicity,change,andstate 2
1.2 Eventstructureinacross-categorialperspective 6
1.3 Thechaptersinthisvolume 11
PartI: Foundationalaspectsofeventstructure:Telicity,change,andstate
2 Lexicalaspectandmultipleincrementalthemes 23
JohnBeavers
2.1 Introduction 23
2.2 Predicateclassesandincrementalthemes 27
2.3 Doubleincrementalthemes 35
2.4 Durativityandscalarcomplexity 47
2.5 Figure/PathRelationsinotherdomains 52
2.6 Conclusion 59
3 AnotherLookatAccomplishmentsandIncrementality 60
SusanRothstein
3.1 Introduction 60
3.2 Somebackgroundaboutlexicalclasses 62
3.3 Wheredoaccomplishmentsfitintoanontologyofevents? 67
3.4 Arethereaccomplishments? 71
3.5 Incrementalhomogeneity 74
3.6 Accomplishments 80
3.7 Failedattemptaccomplishments 96
3.8 Conclusion 101
4 Thecompositionofincrementalchange 103
ChristopherKennedy
4.1 Introduction 103
4.2 Measuresofchange 106
4.3 Thecompositionofincrementalchange 113
4.4 Conclusion 120
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5 Telicityexpressioninthevisualmodality 122
EvieMalaiaandRonnieB.Wilbur
5.1 Introduction 122
5.2 Methodology:linguisticandkinematicassessmentoftelicityin
verbsigns 126
5.3 KinematicfeaturesrepresentingtelicityinASLandHZJ 131
5.4 Eventstructure:fromrealworldtomanuallanguages 133
PartII: Eventstructureinacross-categorialperspective
6 TheMonotonicityHypothesis 139
AndrewKoontz-Garboden
6.1 Introduction 139
6.2 Whatcompositionalitymeansforthesemanticsofwordformation 141
6.3 Propertyconceptsversusresultstates 149
6.4 Deverbaladjectiveswithpropertyconceptmeanings:Derivedstatives 153
6.5 Discussionandconcludingremarks 159
7 FromPsychVerbstoNouns 162
AntonioFábregas,RafaelMarín,andLouiseMcNally
7.1 Introduction 162
7.2 Theaspectualvarietyofpsychverbs 164
7.3 Thestativityofpsychnouns 170
7.4 Themorphosyntaxofpsychnouns 173
7.5 Psychverbsrevisited 179
7.6 Conclusion 183
8 Passivestates 185
BeritGehrke
8.1 Introduction 185
8.2 GermanBE-passives 186
8.3 Theproposal 192
8.4 Eventkindversusstatetokenmodifiers:Twotypesofby-phrases 195
8.5 Implicationsforthesyntax–semanticsinterface 200
8.6 Differentreadingsinpreviousproposals 204
8.7 Conclusion 210
9 Thesyntaxandsemanticsofinchoativesasdirectedmotion:
ThecaseofKorean 212
DongsikLimandMaríaLuisaZubizarreta
9.1 Introduction 212
9.2 SomecharacteristicsofKoreandeadjectivalinchoativeswith-eci 214
9.3 Theoreticalbackgrounds 218
9.4 Proposalandimplications 225
Contents vii
9.5 Koreaninchoativesfromverbalpredicates 232
9.6 -eciversusSpanishse:focusingonBasilico(2010) 243
9.7 Conclusion 247
10 Conflationandincorporationprocessesinresultativeconstructions 252
JaumeMateu
10.1 Introduction 252
10.2 Incorporationversusconflationindenominalverbsandresultative
constructions 253
10.3 Strongversusweakresultativepatternsrevisited 260
10.4 Talmy’s(1991,2000)co-eventconflationpatternmeets
Snyder’s(2001)compoundingparameter 270
10.5 Conclusions 277
11 Parametertheoryandmotionpredicates 279
WilliamSnyder
11.1 Thecompoundingparameter 281
11.2 Motionpredicatesandresultativesin[+TCP]languages 288
11.3 ResultativesandmotionpredicatesinJapanese 293
11.4 Conclusions 299
12 BuildingInvoluntaryStatesinSlavic 300
MaríaLuisaRiveroandAnaArregui
12.1 Introduction 300
12.2 FactualInvoluntaryStates:WestSlavicandRussian 306
12.3 DesiderativeInvoluntaryStates:SouthSlavic 316
12.4 ThesemanticsoftheImperfectiveoperator 320
12.5 OntheinterpretationofFactualandDesiderativeInvoluntaryStates 326
12.6 Conclusions 332
Bibliography 333
AuthorIndex 357
LanguageIndex 362
SubjectIndex 364
General Preface
Thetheoreticalfocusofthisseriesisontheinterfacesbetweensubcomponentsofthe
humangrammaticalsystemandthecloselyrelatedareaoftheinterfacesbetweenthe
different subdisciplines of linguistics. The notion of “interface” has become central
ingrammaticaltheory(forinstance,inChomsky’srecentMinimalistProgram)and
in linguistic practice: work on the interfaces between syntax and semantics, syntax
andmorphology,phonologyandphonetics,etc.hasledtoadeeperunderstandingof
particularlinguisticphenomenaandofthearchitectureofthelinguisticcomponent
ofthemind/brain.
The series covers interfaces between core components of grammar, including
syntax–morphology,syntax–semantics,syntax–phonology,syntax–pragmatics,mor-
phology–phonology, phonology–phonetics, phonetics–speech processing, seman-
tics–pragmatics, and intonation–discourse structure, as well as issues in the way
that the systems of grammar involving these interface areas are acquired and
deployedinuse(includinglanguageacquisition,languagedysfunction,andlanguage
processing). It demonstrates, we hope, that proper understandings of particular
linguistic phenomena, languages, language groups, or inter-language variations all
requirereferencetointerfaces.
Theseriesisopentoworkbylinguistsofalltheoreticalpersuasionsandschoolsof
thought.Amainrequirementisthatauthorsshouldwritesoastobeunderstoodby
colleaguesinrelatedsubfieldsoflinguisticsandbyscholarsincognatedisciplines.
How the syntactic and lexical components of human language enter into the
constructionofeventmeaningshasprovidedarichdomainofenquiryforresearch-
ers over the years since Dowty’s seminal work. Although much has been learned,
there are still several crucial puzzles in the literature. The current volume brings
togethernewworkinthestudyofeventstructure.Leadingresearchersconsiderhow
thenotionsoftelicity,changeandstativityarebestunderstoodwhenconfrontedwith
the wider empirical domain afforded by looking beyond active finite verbs. The
chaptersfocusonhoweventstructureismanifestedinvariousdeverbalornominal
constructions across a range of languages, and cast new light on questions of the
limits of parametric variation in this domain, as well as on the division of labour
betweenthelexicon,thesyntaxandthesemantics/pragmaticsinterface.
DavidAdger
HagitBorer
Acknowledgments
Mostofthechaptersinthisvolumehavedevelopedfrompresentationsmadeatthe
workshop “Events across categories: Theoretical and experimental approaches to
eventstructure”heldattheCSIC’sCentrodeCienciasHumanasySocialesinMadrid
inMay2009;fourchapterswereinvitedcontributions.Theworkshopwasfinanced
primarilythroughgrantFFI2008-04387E/FILOfromtheSpanishMinistryofScience
andInnovation(MICINN).Thepreparationofthevolumeitselfwasinpartfinanced
byMICINNgrantFFI2009-07114toVioletaDemonte,andgrantsHUM2007-60599
and FFI2010-15006 and an award from the Fundació ICREA to Louise McNally.
We are grateful to these agencies for their support, as well as to the CSIC for their
collaborationintheorganizationoftheworkshop.Inaddition,wethankIsabelPérez,
Héctor Fernández Alcalde, Nino Grillo, and Silvia Serrano, who helped with the
organizationoftheworkshop,aswellasallofourreviewers,whoprovideddetailed
comments on the chapters. We especially acknowledge Carmen Gallar Sánchez for
herassistancewiththepreparationofthemanuscript.Finally,wethankoureditors
atOxford,firstJohnDaveyandthenJuliaSteer,whotookoverforJohnshortlyafter
theprocessbegan,fortheirsupport.