Description
| Product ID: | 9781108701587 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Linguistics |
| Title: | Universal Semantic Syntax |
| Subtitle: | A Semiotactic Approach |
| Authors: | Author: Egbert Fortuin, Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Grammar, syntax & morphology |
| Description: | Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. This book presents an alternative approach to syntax, showing that syntax can be analyzed from a semantic perspective. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-07 |
