This book is concerned with the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural r

This book is concerned with the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural r

In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne offers an account of verb meaning from the perspective of a model that trea

This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as

Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.