32.3254, Books: A Historical Morphology of English: Ringe

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 23:01:51
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: A Historical Morphology of English: Ringe

 


Title: Universal Semantic Syntax 
Subtitle: A Semiotactic Approach 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 160  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/universal-semantic-syntax-semiotactic-approach?format=PB 


Author: Egbert Fortuin
Author: Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108701587 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108701587 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108701587 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor's note: this is a new edition of a previously announced title.

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.
 



Part I. The Semiotactic Theory: 1. Basic theoretical principles; 2.
Semiotactic relations and symbols; 3. Nexus: subject-predicate relation; 4.
Valences; 5. Set expression 'SE'; 6. Nexus relation as entity (Bahuvrihi); 7.
Negation; 8. The auxiliary verb 'do'; 9. Appositions; 10. Formal and syntactic
sentences; 11. Abstraction; 12. The basic principles of the formalization;
Part II. Application of the Theory: 1. Noun modifications; 2. Verb
constructions; 3. Impersonal constructions; 4. Other constructions in
non-European languages; 5. Word order and propositional contents; Conclusion:
the syntactic theory from a semantic perspective.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=157037




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