Causation in Grammatical Structures - Bridget Copley

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Résumé :
This book brings together research on the topic of causation from experts in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It draws on data from a wide range of languages and seeks to arrive at a more sophisticated understanding of how causal concepts are expressed in causal meanings, and how those meanings are organized into structures.

Biographie:
Bridget Copley is a chargee de recherche at the laboratory Structures Formelles du Langage, jointly affiliated with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche and the Universite Paris 8. Her research interests include the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of causation, aspect, futures, and modality. Copley received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author of The Semantics of the Future (Routledge, 2009). ; Fabienne Martin is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut fur Linguistik of the University of Stuttgart. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006 from the Universite libre de Bruxelles, and is the author of Les Predicats statifs (De Boeck, 2009). Her research interests include lexical semantics, aspect and the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Sommaire:
1 Bridget Copley and Fabienne Martin: Introduction; From Causal Theories to Causal Meanings; 2 Bridget Copley and Phillip Wolff: Theories of causation can and should inform linguistic theory; 3 Richmond H. Thomason: Formal semantics for causal constructions; 4 Max Kistler: Two types of causal statements; 5 Phillip Wolff: Force dynamics in causal meaning and reasoning; 6 Bridget Copley and Heidi Harley: Eliminating causative entailments with the force-dynamic framework: The case of the Tohono O'odham frustrative cem; 7 Tatjana Ilic: Modality and causation: Two sides of the same coin; 8 Paul Egre: Intentional action and the semantics of gradable expressions (on the Knobe Effect); From Causal Meanings to Causal Structures; 9 Fabienne Martin and Florian Schafer: Causation at the syntax-semantics interface; 10 Gillian Ramchand: Causal chains and instrumental case in Hindi/Urdu; 11 Sergei Tatevosov and Ekaterina Lyutikova: Causativization and event structure; 12 Nigel Duffield: Inadvertent cause and the unergative-unaccusative split in Vietnamese and English; 13 Raffaella Folli: Causatives and inchoatives in the lexicon and the syntax: evidence from Italian; 14 Anja Latrouite: Event-structural prominence and forces in verb meaning shift