Participants in Action: The Interplay of Aspectual Meanings and Thematic Relations in the Semantics of Semitic Morphology

Authors
Publication date 2007
Host editors
  • B.D. ten Cate
  • H.W. Zeevat
Book title Logic, Language, and Computation
Book subtitle 6th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation,TbiLLC 2005 Batumi, Georgia, September 12-16, 2005 : revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783540751434
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783540751441
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 6th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, Batumi, Georgia
Pages (from-to) 200-215
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract This work aims to demonstrate that event structure and thematic relations are closely intertwined. Specifically, we show that in Modern Hebrew the choice of a morphological template has profound effects on the event structure of derived verbs. These effects are correlated with the thematic features marked by the templates, and are mediated by the aspectual classification of the lexical material provided by roots.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75144-1_15
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