This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and t

The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a n

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It presents a new theory of possible root meanings and

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