10.6084/m9.figshare.9821192.v1
Nikolas Gisborne
Nikolas
Gisborne
Lecture 6 - Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language
Brill Online
2019
network
event
theory
cognitive linguistics
Linguistics
2019-09-13 07:17:06
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<p>In <i>Ten Lectures on
Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, </i>Nikolas Gisborne explores
verb meaning. He discusses theories of events and how a network model of
language-in-the-mind should be theorized; what the lexicon is; how to probe
word meaning; evidence for structure in word meaning; polysemy; the lexical
semantics of causation; a type hierarchy of events; and event types
cross-linguistically. He also looks at the relationship between different
classes of events or event types and aktionsarten; transitivity alternations
and argument linking. Gisborne argues that the social and cognitive embedding
of language, requires a view of linguistic structure as a network where even
the analysis of verb meaning can require an understanding of the role of
speaker and hearer.</p>