Event representation in language and cognition
By: edited by Jürgen Bohnemeyer and Eric Pederson
Series: Language, culture, and cognition -- 11
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521898348
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Events (Philosophy); Semantics; Syntax
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On representing events : an introduction / Eric Pederson and Jurgen Bohnemeyer; title: Event representation in serial verb constructions / Andrew Pawley; title: The macro-event property: The segmentation of causal chains / Jurgen Bohnemeyer, N.J. Enfield, James Essegbey, and Sotaro Kita; title: Event representation, time event relations, and clause structure: A cross-linguistic study of English and German /; title: Mary Carroll and Christiane von Stutterheim; title: Event representations in signed languages / Asli Ozyurek and Pamela Perniss; title: Linguistic and non-linguistic categorization of complex motion events / Jeff Loucks and Eric Pederson; title: Putting things in places: Developmental consequences of linguistic typology / Dan I. Slobin, Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown, Sonja Eisenbeiss, and Bhuvana Narasimhan; title: Language-specific encoding of placement events in gestures / Marianne Gullberg; title: Visual encoding of coherent and non-coherent scenes / Christian Dobel, Reinhild Glanemann, Helene Kreysa, Pienie Zwitserlood, and Sonja Eisenbeiss; title: Talking about events / Barbara Tversky, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Julie Bauer Morrison, and Bridgette Martin Hard; title: Absent causes, present effects: How omissions cause events / Phillip Wolff, Matthew Hausknecht, and Kevin Holmes.