Seminar in Lexical Semantics: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Events

An investigation into the strategies languages use to describe events of various types with a focus on whether attested differences stem from disparate lexical and morphosyntactic resources available to individual languages or reflect alternate conceptualizations of event of certain types. Case studies may be drawn from the following domains: change of state, change of possession, change of psychological state, motion, surface contact, creation, and causation. Prerequisites: Linguist 222A or 232A or permission of the instructor.