This accessible and informative book is a study in comparative syntax offering a continuation to the author’s previous book on manner adverbs. It explores a range of questions raised by the syntax and interpretation of other two classes of adverbs: temporal and aspectual ones.

The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate number of aspectual distinctions and levels. Apart from bringing to light various methodological and analytical issues, this volume gathers together a unique collection of original research, based on spoken- and written-language corpora, of an array of languages and linguistic varieties

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores the contribution of semantics to the argument-structure and tense-aspect constructions in which verbs occur, integrating the aspectual and causal structures of events.

Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings.
Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions.
Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories.
Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language.