8.898, Books: Semantics

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-898. Wed Jun 18 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.898, Books: Semantics

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                        NEW COURSE BOOK

                          Peter Harder

                     FUNCTIONAL SEMANTICS

      A Theory of Meaning, Structure and Tense in English
            1997. 23 x 15,5 cm. XV, 586 pages.
            Paperback DM 58,-/approx. US$ 41.00
                     ISBN 3-11-015721-7

            Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York


What is the role of meaning in relation to linguistic structure?
This book tells the story of meaning from Plato to the present,
and shows why the accepted current picture of linguistic meaning
is wrong as well as confusing.

The book argues that the essential job of syntax is to combine
simpler meanings into more complex meanings; that `semantic'
meaning is essentially interactive; that the evolution of syntax
is bound up with the development of purely conceptual meaning -
and that this is reflected in universal regularities of clause
structure.  The core of linguistic structure is constituted by
functional-interactive meanings in syntactic collaboration, and
tense in English is used to illustrate this claim.

Examination copies for course adoption are available upon request.
Please contact the publisher.
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CSLI Publications:
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John Benjamins:
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Kluwer Academic Publishers:
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Lawrence Erlbaum:
	http://www.erlbaum.com/inform.htm
MIT Working papers in Linguistics:
	http://broca.mit.edu/mitwpl.web/WPLs.html
U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association:
	http://linguistlist.org/pubs/glsa.html
Pacific Linguistics Publications:
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Summer Institute of Linguistics:
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