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Event structure
About: Event structure is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 728 publications have been published within this topic receiving 17772 citations.
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TL;DR: An analysis of how people use event structure in perception, understanding, planning, and action is constructed and an explanation of how multiple sources of information interact in event perception and conception is explained.
Abstract: Events can be understood in terms of their temporal structure. The authors first draw on several bodies of research to construct an analysis of how people use event structure in perception, understanding, planning, and action. Philosophy provides a grounding for the basic units of events and actions. Perceptual psychology provides an analogy to object perception: Like objects, events belong to categories, and, like objects, events have parts. These relationships generate 2 hierarchical organizations for events: taxonomies and partonomies. Event partonomies have been studied by looking at how people segment activity as it happens. Structured representations of events can relate partonomy to goal relationships and causal structure; such representations have been shown to drive narrative comprehension, memory, and planning. Computational models provide insight into how mental representations might be organized and transformed. These different approaches to event structure converge on an explanation of how multiple sources of information interact in event perception and conception.
1,103 citations
TL;DR: To connect the abstract ideas of events and domains of information, it is shown how casual nets induce certain kinds of domains where the information points are certain sets of events, which allows translations between the languages of net theory and domain theory.
1,079 citations
TL;DR: It is proposed that brain activity is naturally structured into nested events, which form the basis of long-term memory representations, which represent abstract, multimodal situation models.
793 citations
Abstract: English resultative expressions have been a major focus of research on the syntax-semantics
interface We argue in this article that a family of related constructions is required to account for
their distribution We demonstrate that a number of generalizations follow from the semantics of
the constructions we posit: the syntactic argument structure of the sentence is predicted by general
principles of argument linking; and the aspectual structure of the sentence is determined by the
aspectual structure of the constructional subevent, which is in turn predictable from general principles
correlating event structure with change, extension, motion, and paths Finally, the semantics
and syntax of resultatives explain the possibilities for temporal relations between the two subevents
While these generalizations clearly exist, there is also a great deal of idiosyncrasy involved
in resultatives Many idiosyncratic instances and small subclasses of the construction must be
learned and stored individually This account serves to justify aspects of what we share in our
overall vision of grammar, whatwe might call the CONSTRUCTIONAL view To the extent that our
treatment of the resultative can be stated only within the constructional view, it serves as evidence
for this view as a whole
782 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1994
TL;DR: This paper focuses on linking Syntactic Argument Positions and Aspectual Roles, and some Phenomena Illustrating the Modularity of Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspects of the Event Nucleus.
Abstract: Preface. One: Linking Syntactic Argument Positions and Aspectual Roles. 1.1. Introduction and Theoretical Background. 1.2. Direct Internal Arguments. 1.3. Indirect Internal Arguments. 1.4. External Arguments. The Non-Measuring Constraint on External Arguments. 1.5. Aspectual Roles. 1.6. The Aspectual Interface Hypothesis. Notes. Two: Event Structure and Aspectual Roles. 2.1. The Event Nucleus. 2.2. Syntactic Processes Sensitive to the Event Nucleus. 2.3. The Special Status of Arguments in Aspectual Structure. Notes. Three: Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles. 3.1. Lexical Conceptual Structure. 3.2. The Relation between Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles. 3.3. Some Phenomena Illustrating the Modularity of Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles. Notes. References. Name Index. Language Index. Subject Index.
693 citations
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