Universal Semantic Syntax (Hardback)
Hardcover 206 pages English May 09, 2019
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Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its primary starting point the idea that syntax deals with the relations between meanings expressed by form-meaning elements and that the same types of relations can be found cross-linguistically. The theory provides a way to formalize the syntactic relations between meanings so that each fragment of grammar can be analyzed in a clear-cut way. A comprehensive introduction into the theoretical concepts of the theory is provided, with analyzes of numerous examples in English and various other languages, European and non-European, to illustrate the concepts. The theory discussed will enable linguists to look for similarities between languages, while at the same time acknowledging important language specific features.
- Author:
- Egbert Fortuin, Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- May 09, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 206 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1108476805
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108476805