20.1653, Books: Semantics/Syntax: Thrane

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Title: Referential-Semantic Analysis 
Subtitle: Aspects of a Theory of Linguistic Reference 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 28  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Torben Thrane

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521105712 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 18.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521105712 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 34.99


Abstract:

Dr. Thrane makes an original contribution to one of the central topics in
syntax and semantics: the nature and mechanisms of reference in natural
language. He makes a fundamental distinction between syntactic analyses
that are internal to the structure of a language and analyses of the
referential properties that connect a language with the 'outside world' -
and therefore derive in some sense from common human capacities for
perceptual discrimination. Dr. Thrane argues that the failure to make this
distinction and to attend separately to both kinds of analysis has vitiated
previous general accounts of linguistic structure. The book focuses
particularly on pronouns and on the role of determiners, quantifiers and
other components of the noun phrase. Most of the data come from the modern
Germanic languages, especially English, but Dr. Thrane considers also the
structural peculiarities of 'classifier languages' like Vietnamese. The
book will be important for students of English language as well as for
general linguists. 



Part I. The Preliminaries: 
1. The linguistic preliminaries; 
2. The philosophical preliminaries; 

Part II. The Theory: 
3. Some fundamental notations; 
4. The basis of RS-analysis; 
5. Referential-semantic features; 
6. Subjunction and adjunction; 

Part III. The Application: 
7. Referential functives; 
8. Indefinite expressions; 
9. Definite expressions; 
10. The pronouns. 


Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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