Jan van Voorst

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jan van Voorst is involved.

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Event Structure

Jan van Voorst

This study establishes a relation between the semantics of the subject and the direct object-NP and aspect. The notion of event is central. Events have a beginning and an end. This means in temporal terms that events have a point in time at which they begin and a point in time at which they end. read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 59] 1988. x, 181 pp.

Articles

Voorst, Jan van 1995 The Semantic Structure of Causative Constructions Studies in Language 19:2, pp. 489–523 | Article

This paper shows that an adequate semantic analysis of causative transitive constructions with verbs like break, turn and roll has to take into account two phenomena: 1) semantic specification, and 2) change of state or accomplishment. These two phenomena are not at all specific to this type of… read more

Voorst, Jan van 1993 Against a Composite Analysis of Certain Causative Constructions Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization, Nuyts, Jan and Eric Pederson (eds.), pp. 145–165 | Article