Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs

The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great variety of languages. A special focus is put on noun types, tense and aspect semantics, granularity of verb meaning, and subcompositionality. The investigated languages and language groups include Austronesian, East Asian, Slavic, German, English, Hungarian and Lakhota. The collection provided in this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students specialising in the fields of semantics, morphology, syntax, typology, and cognitive sciences.

Frontmatter -- Preface to dup series `Studies in Language and Cognition¿ -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- SEMANTIC AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT OF NOUNS -- Evidence for four basic noun types from a corpus-linguistic and a psycholinguistic perspective -- Type shifts and noun class changes under determination in Teop -- Semantic constraints on multiple case marking in Korean -- SEMANTIC AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT OF VERBS AND SENTENCES -- Glück auf, der Steiger kommt: a frame account of extensional and intensional steigen -- Comparative lexicology and the typology of event descriptions: a programmatic study -- Spatio-temporal modiVcation and the determination of aspect: a phase-theoretical account -- The purported Present Perfect Puzzle -- Phase quantification and frame Theory -- SEMANTIC AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECTS OF NOUNS AND VERBS -- She loves you, -ja -ja -ja: objective conjugation and pragmatic possession in Hungarian -- Black and white Languages -- Variations of double nominative in Korean and Japanese -- Definiteness & perfectivity in telic incremental theme predications -- Referentiality and telicity in Lakhota and Tagalog -- List of Sebastian Löbner¿s publications