Chapter 5
Obtaining
Understanding events in terms of bodies possessing objects
Article outline
- The Object Event-Structure Metaphor: An overview
- Attributes are possessions
- Attributes are possessions: Evidence from English and ASL
- Changes are movements of possessions
- Changes are movements of possessions: Evidence from English and ASL
- Causation is transfer of possessions
- Causation is transfer of possessions: Evidence from English and ASL
- Purposes are desired objects/achieving a purpose is acquiring a desired object
- Purposes are desired objects/achieving a purpose is acquiring desired object: Evidence from English and ASL
- Chapter summary
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Notes