Introduction

Robert Truswell

Introduction

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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This introduction summarizes the major pieces of research that laid the foundations for the current field of event structure. It discusses three leading ideas from the 1950s and 1960s: (1) many sentences have a covert event argument (Davidson); (2) event descriptions can be divided into classes according to their aspectual properties (Vendler); (3) apparently lexical meaning is partly a product of compositional processes involving operators like CAUSE and BECOME (Lakoff, McCawley). These ideas became intertwined during the 1970s–90s, laying out the terrain for today’s event-structural research. This chapter also summarizes the contents of the handbook, and relationships between the chapters.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
Editors	Robert Truswell
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	1
Pages	1-28
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Print)	9780199685318
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2019

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event structure
event argument
aspectual class
lexical decomposition
lexical conceptual structure

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Form-Independent Meaning Representation for Eventualities
Steedman, M., 26 Mar 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Truswell, R. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 605-623 19 p.
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Event composition and event individuation
Truswell, R., 22 Mar 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Truswell, R. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 90-122 33 p.
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Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
Truswell, R. (Editor), 22 Mar 2019, Oxford University Press. 736 p.
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Introduction

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Form-Independent Meaning Representation for Eventualities

Event composition and event individuation

Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

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