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Title:
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Verben, Ereignisse und das Lexikon / Verbs, Events, and the Lexicon
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Author:
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Stefan Engelberg
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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University of Wuppertal
, Department of General Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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1998
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Semantics
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Subject Language(s):
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English
German, Standard
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Director(s):
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Joachim Jacobs
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Abstract:
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An event structure theory of verb meaning representation is developed in this thesis. Verbs have the potential of referring to events which consist of subevents. The boundaries of the subevents are established by certain temporal properties and relations, and a connection between the subevents and the thematic arguments of the verb is established via semantic relations.
The thesis focusses on two issues concerning the empirical validity of the theory. Firstly, independent verification of the content of the proposed meaning representations is provided through the consultation of two areas of study, namely discussions in the field of ontological philosophy and in the field of cognitive psychology as they concern the concept of 'event'. The logical type of predicates like 'punctuality', 'agentivity' and 'volition' is established, and truth conditions are given for them which are consistent with findings in cognitive psychological investigations. Secondly, a demostration of how the lexical representations can be processed within a truth-conditional semantics is carried out.
Proceeding from this foundation, explanations are given for a broad range of phenomena such as adverbial modification (e.g. instumental and commitative adverbials), argument linking (e.g. partitives, agents in passive sentences), hyponomy and antonymy in the verbal domain, coocurrence restrictions for adjuncts, and restrictions on the interpretation of certain verbs in grammatical categories like aspect or voice.
Although the bulk of the examples are from German or English, data from several other languages are given sporadic consideration.
(The thesis has been published as: Verben, Ereignisse und das Lexikon. - Tübingen: Niemeyer 2000.)
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