Hagit Borer
Structuring Sense
An Exo-Skeletal Trilogy

·   As of February 2005,   Structuring Sense, Volumes I and II are in print from Oxford University Press.  Information is available at the following links:

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-926390-6

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-926392-2

    A downloadable version is no longer available on this site.

· If you downloaded Structuring Sense from here in the past, or if you have seen a copy of it thus obtained, please beware that the print version is not identical to the version that used to be posted here.  While most changes are minor, somewhat more substantial changes are found in chapters 7 and 9 of volume II.

Volume I: In Name Only
Table of Contents

Part I: Exo-Skeletal Explanations

Chapter 1:  Structuring Sense: Introductory Comments
Chapter 2:  Nuts and Bolts

Part II: Determining Structures

Chapter 3:  The Proper Way
Chapter 4:  Some Stuff : On the Mass-Count Distinction
Chapter 5:  Things that Count: Null D 
Chapter 6:  Things that Count: Null # and Others

Part III: Another Language, Another System

Chapter 7:  One is the Loneliest Number
Chapter 8:  Cheese and Olives, Bottles and Cups - Notes on Measure Phrases and Container Phrases

Chapter 9: Some Concluding Notes on Language Variation

Volume II: The Normal Course of Events

Table of Contents

Part I: Setting Course    

Chapter 1:    Exo-Skeletal Explanations – A Recap    
Chapter 2:    Why Events? 

Part II: The Projection of Arguments 

Chapter 3:    Structuring Telicity    
Chapter 4:    (A)structuring Atelicity    
Chapter 5:    Interpreting Telicity    
Chapter 6:    Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm    
Chapter 7:    Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization    
Chapter 8:    How Fine Grained?    

Part III: Locatives and Event Structure    

Chapter 9:    The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives
Chapter 10:    Slavification and Unaccusatives

Chapter 11:    Forward Oh! Some Concluding Notes