Universal Semantic Syntax
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781108476805
- ISBN-10: 1108476805
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: May 2019
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.99 pounds
- Page Count: 206
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