Exploring the syntax-semantics interface / Robert D. van Valin, Jr.
This book looks at how syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in different ways across human languages. Written within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar, which proposes a set of rules to link semantic and syntactic relations to each other, it discusses topics across the full range of gr...
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Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Syntactic structure; 2 Lexical representation and semantic roles; 3 Information structure; 4 Syntactic relations and case marking; 5 Linking syntactic and semantic representations in simple sentences; 6 The structure of complex sentences; 7 Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences; References; Languages index; Subject index.