32.1950, Books: Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: Van Valin, Jr. (ed.)

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:26:54
From: Jamie George [marketing at cambridgescholars.com]
Subject: Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: Van Valin, Jr. (ed.)

 


Title: Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 
Subtitle: A Role and Reference Grammar Perspective 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6747-4 


Editor: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

Hardback: ISBN: 1527567478 9781527567474 Pages: 330 Price: U.K. £ 64.99


Abstract:

This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of
significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb
classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase
structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics
are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka
(Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia),
Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in
these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which
strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of
the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs
from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in
important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate
cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the
formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the
contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical
and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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