Semantic syntax
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Semantic syntax
Blackwell, 1996
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Bibliography: p. [365]-374
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780631160052
Description
This book presents and exemplifies the theory of grammar called Semantic Syntax. The grammar, which offers a syntactic theory closely connected with semantic analyses, is a direct continuation of Generative Semantics. It will re-ignite interest in that framework which flourished and promised so much in the 1960s and 1970s. The book presents a family of generative rule systems for English, French, Dutch and German which map semantic analyses of sentences onto syntactic surface structures. It provides in-depth analyses of the auxiliary and complementation systems of these languages, to a degree of completeness and precision not achieved before. It deals too with English adverbials, Dutch and German verbal clusters and French clitics. The extremely compact rule systems are directly implementable as computer programs. They consist of a few phrase structure rules generating base structures in the language of predicate calculus, followed by a handful of cyclic and postcyclic transformational rules. The book concludes by extending the theory to quantification, clefting and question formation, conjunction reduction and subordinate clauses and it also offers a sketch of a syntax of Turkish.
Radically unorthodox and opposed to current generative thinking, Semantic Syntax will be widely discussed by both theoretical and computational linguistics.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Some Formal Properties of Grammars, Trees and Rules. 3. The English Auxiliary and Complementation System. 4. The French Auxiliary and Complementation System. 5. The Dutch Auxiliary and Complementation System. 6. The German Auxiliary and Complementation System. 7. Any Other Business. List of French Words. List of Dutch Words. List of German Words. Bibliography. Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631160069
Description
This book presents and exemplifies the theory of grammar called Semantic Syntax. The grammar, which offers a syntactic theory closely connected with semantic analyses, is a direct continuation of Generative Semantics; it will re-ignite interest in that framework which flourished and promised so much in the 1960s and 1970s.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. Introduction.
2. Some Formal Properties of Grammars, Trees and Rules.
3. The English Auxiliary and Complementation System.
4. The French Auxiliary and Complementation System.
5. The Dutch Auxiliary and Complementation System.
6. The German Auxiliary and Complementation System.
7. Any Other Business.
List of French Words.
List of Dutch Words.
List of German Words.
Bibliography.
Index.
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