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BL
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979628
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b733998
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| Main Entry
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Borer, Hagit.
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Structuring Sense.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: OUP Oxford,, 2005.
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1 online resource (417 pages)
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| ISBN
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0191532568
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: 9780191532566
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| Contents
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Acknowledgements; Contents to Volume I; Abbreviations; A Note on Transcription; Part I: Setting Course; 1 Exo-Skeletal Explanations-A Recap; 1.1 How Grammatical are Words?; 1.2 Functional Structure and the Architecture of Heads; 1.3 A Note on Inflection; 1.4 A Note on Idioms; 2 Why Events?; 2.1 Variable-behaviour Verbs; 2.2 But Why Aktionsart?; 2.3 UTAH?; 2.4 Severing the Internal Argument from its Verb; Part II: The Projection of Arguments; 3 Structuring Telicity; 3.1 Preliminaries; 3.2 Structuring Quantity; 3.3 Prepositional Licensing; 4 (A)structuring Atelicity; 4.1 Where Are We?
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10.1 Re-Examining the Paradigm10.2 And Returning to Erupting Riots; 10.3 Achievements?; 10.4 Summary; 11 Forward Oh!; 11.1 Inter-Language and Intra-Language Variation; 11.2 Some Final Notes on the Nature of Listemes; References; Index; Index of Languages; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Index of Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.
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4.2 Atelic Transitives and Partitive Case4.3 Impersonal Null Subjects and the Unaccusative-Unergative Paradigm; 5 Interpreting Telicity; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Against Lexical Encoding; 5.3 To Quantity or to Quantize?; 5.4 Scalar Representations and Telicity; 6 Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm; 6.1 From the Head to the Specifier: Quantity prefixes and DP interpretation; 6.2 Against Atelic Agreement; 6.3 Licensing DP-internal Structure; 7 Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization; 7.1 Slavic Intransitive Perfectives; 7.2 Does the Perfective Mark Quantity?
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Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the second, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic, philosophical, and psychological theories about human mind and language. Hagit Borer departs from both language specific constructional approaches and lexicalist appr.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Temporal constructions.
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| Dewey Classification
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415
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P294.5.B674 2005
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