Robert Truswell is Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh, and Adjunct Professor in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, where he was Assistant Professor from 2011-14. He works on many aspects of syntax, semantics, and their interface, as well as syntactic and semantic change, and topics related to the evolution of language. His previous publications include the monograph Events, Phrases, and Questions (OUP, 2011), and the edited volumes Syntax and its Limits (OUP, 2014, with Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali) and Micro-change and Macro-change inDiachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017, with Eric Mathieu).
1. Introduction, Robert Truswell Part I: Events and Natural Language Metaphysics 2. Aspectual classes, Anita Mittwoch 3. Events and states, Claudia Maienborn 4. Event composition and event individuation, Robert Truswell 5. The semantic representation of causation and agentivity, Richmond H. Thomason 6. Force dynamics, Bridget Copley 7. Event structure without naive physics, Henk J. Verkuyl 8. Event kinds, Berit Gehrke Part II: Events in Morphosyntax and Lexical Semantics 9. Thematic roles and events, Nikolas Gisborne and James Donaldson 10. Semantic domains for syntactic word-building, Lisa Levinson 11. Neodavidsonianism in semantics and syntax, Terje Lohndal 12. Event structure and verbal decomposition, Gillian Ramchand 13. Nominals and event structure, Friederike Moltmann 14. Adjectives and event structure, Rebekah Baglini and Chris Kennedy Part III: Crosslinguistic Perspectives 15. Lexicalization pattners, Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav 16. Secondary predication, Tova Rapoport 17. Event structure and syntax, Tal Siloni 18. Inner aspect crosslinguistically, Lisa deMena Travis Part IV: Events, Cognition, and Computation 19. Tense and aspect in Discourse Representation Theory, Hans Kamp 20. Coherence relations, Andrew Kehler 21. Form-independent meaning-representation for eventualities, Mark Steedman 22. The neurophysiology of event processing in language and visual events, Neil Cohn and Martin Paczynski
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