TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dölling,Johannes
AU  - Heyde-Zybatow,Tatjana
AU  - Schäfer,Martin
TI  - Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation
T2  - Language, Context and Cognition Series
SN  - 9783110925449
AV  - P295 -- .E96 2008eb 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I Event Structure and Syntactic Construction -- Patients in Igbo and Mandarin -- Event decomposition and the syntax and semantics of durative phrases in Chinese
N2  - Human languages are economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of utterances only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Language, Context and Cognition explores conceptual underspecification and context-dependence in grammar and text-production as essential properties of natural languages. This requires close cooperation of linguistics with cognitive science, logic and pragmatics
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ER  -