Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. Written within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar, which proposes a set of rules to link semantic and syntactic relations to each other, this book discusses in detail how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Clearly written and comprehensive, it will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
- Discusses a wide range of typological data
- Presents a comprehensive theory of grammar
- Presents ideas that can be applied within other disciplines such as cognitive psychology and computer science
Reviews & endorsements
'this book on RRG linguistic theory succeeds to provide a fresh and deep analytic view on the exploration of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics interfaces … A special remark should emphasize the cross-linguistic value of the whole investigation within the book.' Zentralblatt MATH
Product details
July 2005Paperback
9780521010566
334 pages
247 × 174 × 24 mm
0.662kg
29 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Syntactic structure
- 2. Lexical representation and semantic roles
- 3. Information structure
- 4. Syntactic relations and case marking
- 5. Linking syntactic and semantic representations in simple sentences
- 6. The structure of complex sentences
- 7. Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences.
