Telicity, Change, and State A

This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects of event structure by combining foundational semantic research with a series of case studies from a variety of languages. The book begins with an overview of the theoretical issues central to the volume, along with a brief presentation of the remaining chapters and the points of contact between them. The chapters, developed within several different theoretical perspectives, promote cross-theory as well as cross-linguistic comparison. The work will interest scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, semantics, and their interfaces. It will also appeal to researchers in philosophy, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition who are interested in the notions of telicity, change, and stativity.

Violeta Demonte is Research Professor of Linguistics at the Spanish National Research Council, Madrid. Louise McNally is Professor of Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

General Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Authors	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Telicity, change, and state	p. 2
Event structure in a cross-categorial perspective	p. 6
The chapters in this volume	p. 11
Foundational aspects of event structure: Telicity, change, and state
Lexical aspect and multiple incremental themes	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Predicate classes and incremental themes	p. 27
Double incremental themes	p. 35
Durativity and scalar complexity	p. 47
Figure/Path Relations in other domains	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 59
Another Look at Accomplishments and Incrementality	p. 60
Introduction	p. 60
Some background about lexical classes	p. 62
Where do accomplishments fit into an ontology of events?	p. 67
Are there accomplishments?	p. 71
Incremental homogeneity	p. 74
Accomplishments	p. 80
Failed attempt accomplishments	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 101
The composition of incremental change	p. 103
Introduction	p. 103
Measures of change	p. 106
The composition of incremental change	p. 113
Conclusion	p. 120
Telicity expression in the visual modality	p. 122
Introduction	p. 122
Methodology: linguistic and kinematic assessment of telicity in verb signs	p. 126
Kinematic features representing telicity in ASL and HZJ	p. 131
Event structure: from real world to manual languages	p. 133
Event structure in a cross-categorial perspective
The Monotonicity Hypothesis	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
What compositionality means for the semantics of word formation	p. 141
Property concepts versus result states	p. 149
Deverbal adjectives with property concept meanings: Derived statives	p. 153
Discussion and concluding remarks	p. 159
From Psych Verbs to Nouns	p. 162
Introduction	p. 162
The aspectual variety of psych verbs	p. 164
The stativity of psych nouns	p. 170
The morphosyntax of psych nouns	p. 173
Psych verbs revisited	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 183
Passive states	p. 185
Introduction	p. 185
German BE-passives	p. 186
The proposal	p. 192
Event kind versus state token modifiers: Two types of by-phrases	p. 195
Implications for the syntax-semantics interface	p. 200
Different readings in previous proposals	p. 204
Conclusion	p. 210
The syntax and semantics of inchoatives as directed motion: The case of Korean	p. 212
Introduction	p. 212
Some characteristics of Korean deadjectival inchoatives with -eci	p. 214
Theoretical backgrounds	p. 218
Proposal and implications	p. 225
Korean inchoatives from verbal predicates	p. 232
-eci versus Spanish se: focusing on Basilico (2010)	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 247
Conflation and incorporation processes in resultative constructions	p. 252
Introduction	p. 252
Incorporation versus conflation in denominal verbs and resultative constructions	p. 253
Strong versus weak resultative patterns revisited	p. 260
Talmy's (1991, 2000) co-event conflation pattern meets Snyder's (2001) compounding parameter	p. 270
Conclusions	p. 277
Parameter theory and motion predicates	p. 279
The compounding parameter	p. 281
Motion predicates and resultatives in [+ TCP] languages	p. 288
Resultatives and motion predicates in Japanese	p. 293
Conclusions	p. 299
Building Involuntary States in Slavic	p. 300
Introduction	p. 300
Factual Involuntary States: West Slavic and Russian	p. 306
Desiderative Involuntary States: South Slavic	p. 316
The semantics of the Imperfective operator	p. 320
On the interpretation of Factual and Desiderative Involuntary States	p. 326
Conclusions	p. 332
Bibliography	p. 333
Author Index	p. 357
Language Index	p. 362
Subject Index	p. 364
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Telicity, Change, and State A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure

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