Uniting work from philosophical, cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Dr Truswell develops a model of the structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He predicts the acceptability of particular formulations, considers the individuation of events in the light of the model, and provides a novel account of patterns of question formation.

• 1: Introduction


• Part I: The Structure of Events


• 2: The Variable Size of Events


• 3: Single Events From Multiple Verb Phrases and the Role of Agentivity


• 4: Structures Built From Events


• part II: Events and Locality


• 5: Where We Stand


• 6: Extraction From Adjuncts


• 7: Extraction From Complement Clauses and rhe Effect of Tense


• 8: Architectural Issues


• 9: Conclusion


• References


• Author Index


• Subject Index

Robert Truswell is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and English Language at the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh. His research broadly concerns the interfaces between syntax and semantics. He received his PhD in Phonetics and Linguistics from University College London in 2007 and then spent a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at Tufts University