理论与方法专栏 |牛津事件结构手册

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《理论语言学五道口站》（2021年第14期，总第148期）理论与方法专栏为大家推荐英国爱丁堡大学语言学及英语语言学高级讲师、加拿大渥太华大学语言学兼职教授Robert Truswell主编的著作：The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure（《牛津事件结构手册》）。该手册于2021年在Oxford University Press出版。

著作简介

The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure

《牛津事件结构手册》

简介：

该手册的核心是事件本质的研究，以及如何使用语言来描述事件。

在过去的六十年里，事件结构研究取得了丰硕的成果，成为了词汇语义学最成功的领域之一。形态学和句法学、词汇学和成分语义学、认知科学和人工智能等不同领域的研究成果的结合促进了事件和事件描述理论的形成。该手册对事件结构研究的相关重要议题和热点话题进行了深入浅出的介绍，例如，事件的概念、事件的认知、事件的推理以及事件在组织语法和语篇中的角色。手册分为四个部分：第一部分涉及与事件相关的形而上学的问题；第二部分讨论事件结构与语法的关系；第三部分介绍该领域内一系列跨语言的案例研究；第四部分广泛地探讨认知科学和人工智能的联系。

该手册最大的特点是具有显著的跨学科性，将语言学、哲学、心理学、认知科学和计算机科学的理论进行有机结合，势必吸引更多的学生及研究人员。

Abstract:

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible introductions to major topics and ongoing debates in event structure research, exploring what events are, how we perceive them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. The chapters are divided into four parts: the first covers metaphysical issues related to events; the second is concerned with the relationship between event structure and grammar; the third is a series of crosslinguistic case studies; and the fourth deals with links to cognitive science and artificial intelligence more broadly.

The book is strongly interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science, and will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

编者简介

-Robert Truswell-

（罗伯特·特鲁斯维尔）

罗伯特·特鲁斯维尔(Robert Truswell)，爱丁堡大学语言学及英语语言学高级讲师以及渥太华大学语言学兼职教授。他的主要研究兴趣为句法、语义及其接口、句法和语义演变，以及语言进化的相关课题。已出版书籍有专著《事件、短语和问题》(OUP，2011年)、《句法及其限制》(OUP，2014年，与拉斐尔·弗利和克里斯蒂娜·塞夫达利合编)和《历时句法中的微观变化和宏观变化》(OUP，2017年，与埃里奇·马修合著)。待出版书籍有《句法-语篇界面的坐标结构提取》(OUP即将出版，与丹尼尔·奥尔特舒勒合著)。

Robert Truswell is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh, and Adjunct Professor in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. He works on many aspects of syntax, semantics, and their interface, as well as syntactic and semantic change, and topics related to the evolution of language. His previous publications include the monograph Events, Phrases, and Questions (OUP, 2011), and the edited volumes Syntax and its Limits (OUP, 2014, with Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali) and Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (OUP, 2017, with Éric Mathieu). He is the co-author, with Daniel Altshuler, of Extraction from Coordinate Structures at the Syntax-Discourse Interface (forthcoming from OUP).

相关评论

“该书结尾的参考文献和主题索引部分对读者的学习和研究帮助极大。由于其跨学科性质，该书将进一步激发主修语言学、哲学、心理学、认知科学和计算机科学等学科的高年级本科生和硕博学生的研究兴趣。”

——G. C. Gamst, CHOICE

"The book contains supporting references and a helpful subject index at the end. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and above in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science."

-G. C. Gamst, CHOICE

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