内容简介
Preface 序言
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Space in Language
1.1 Defining space
1.1.1 Semantic primitives in motion events
1.1.2 Syntactic realizations of semantic primitives
1.2 Viewing space via event semantics: some
preliminaries
1.2.1 Argument structure of a verb
1.2.2 Event type and event structure
1.3 Objectives and organization of the book
Chapter 2 Ambiguities of Mandarin Spatial Modifiers: An
Event-semantic Perspective
2.1 Ambiguities in linguistic space
2.2 Explaining semantic ambiguity of spatial modifiers
2.2.1 The principle of (sub)event modification
2.2.2 The principle of aspect shift
2.3 Event semantics in framing Chinese motion events
2.4 Remedies for ambiguity in linguistic space
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Distribution of zai in Mandarin
3.1 Verb classification based on event type
3.2 Classification of spatial prepositions
3.3 Spatial prepositional phrases headed by zai
( zai-PPs )
3.3.1 Distribution of zai-PPs
3.3.2 An event-semantic account of the use of zai-PPs.,
3.3.3 Syntactic positions of zai-PPs
3.3.4 Cognitive constraints on the use of zai-PPs
3.3.5 Diachronic changes of zai
3.4 Summary and discussion
3.5 Acquisition of zai
Chapter 4 Localizer Phrases, Locative Subjects, and
Locative Object
4.1 Syntax and semantics of localizers and localizer
phrases
4.2 Locative subjects
4.2.1 Information structure of locative subject sentences
4.2.2 Aspectual properties of locative subject sentences
4.2.3 One-argument locative subject sentences
4.2.4 Nature of locative subjects: subject or topic?
4.3 Syntax and semantics of locative objects
4.4 Summary
4.5 Acquisition of the localizer phrase and the locative
subject construction
Chapter 5 Linguistic Space, Perception, and Cognition
5.1 Frames of reference, reference strategies and
Figure-Ground asymmetry
