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Event representation in language and cognition /
edited by Jurgen Bohnemeyer and Eric Pederson.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- xiii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Language, culture, and cognition ; 11 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On representing events : an introduction / Eric Pederson and Jurgen Bohnemeyer -- Event representation in serial verb constructions / Andrew Pawley -- The macro-event property: The segmentation of causal chains / Jurgen Bohnemeyer, N.J. Enfield, James Essegbey, and Sotaro Kita -- Event representation, time event relations, and clause structure: A cross-linguistic study of English and German / -- Mary Carroll and Christiane von Stutterheim -- Event representations in signed languages / Asli Ozyurek and Pamela Perniss -- Linguistic and non-linguistic categorization of complex motion events / Jeff Loucks and Eric Pederson -- Putting things in places: Developmental consequences of linguistic typology / Dan I. Slobin, Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown, Sonja Eisenbeiss, and Bhuvana Narasimhan -- Language-specific encoding of placement events in gestures / Marianne Gullberg -- Visual encoding of coherent and non-coherent scenes / Christian Dobel, Reinhild Glanemann, Helene Kreysa, Pienie Zwitserlood, and Sonja Eisenbeiss -- Talking about events / Barbara Tversky, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Julie Bauer Morrison, and Bridgette Martin Hard -- Absent causes, present effects: How omissions cause events / Phillip Wolff, Matthew Hausknecht, and Kevin Holmes.
9780521898348
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Events (Philosophy)
401.43 / E974
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On representing events : an introduction / Eric Pederson and Jurgen Bohnemeyer -- Event representation in serial verb constructions / Andrew Pawley -- The macro-event property: The segmentation of causal chains / Jurgen Bohnemeyer, N.J. Enfield, James Essegbey, and Sotaro Kita -- Event representation, time event relations, and clause structure: A cross-linguistic study of English and German / -- Mary Carroll and Christiane von Stutterheim -- Event representations in signed languages / Asli Ozyurek and Pamela Perniss -- Linguistic and non-linguistic categorization of complex motion events / Jeff Loucks and Eric Pederson -- Putting things in places: Developmental consequences of linguistic typology / Dan I. Slobin, Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown, Sonja Eisenbeiss, and Bhuvana Narasimhan -- Language-specific encoding of placement events in gestures / Marianne Gullberg -- Visual encoding of coherent and non-coherent scenes / Christian Dobel, Reinhild Glanemann, Helene Kreysa, Pienie Zwitserlood, and Sonja Eisenbeiss -- Talking about events / Barbara Tversky, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Julie Bauer Morrison, and Bridgette Martin Hard -- Absent causes, present effects: How omissions cause events / Phillip Wolff, Matthew Hausknecht, and Kevin Holmes.
9780521898348
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Events (Philosophy)
401.43 / E974