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Valin, Robert D. Van

 
9780521010566: Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
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ISBN 10: 052101056X ISBN 13: 9780521010566
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Sinopsis

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. 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. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Working within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), Van Valin proposes a set of rules, called the 'linking algorithm', which relates syntactic and semantic representations to each other, with discourse-pragmatics playing a role in the linking. Using this model, he discusses the full range of grammatical phenomena, including the structures of simple and complex sentences, verb and argument structure, voice, reflexivization and extraction restrictions. Clearly written and comprehensive, this book will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

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Robert D. Van Valin Jr is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2005
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ISBN 10 
052101056X
ISBN 13 
9780521010566
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Número de páginas
334
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