View of Language

Name: View of Language
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ISBN: 9780199244812

ISBN-10: 0199244812

ISBN-13: 9780199244812

Edition: 2001

Authors: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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This book collects the best and most influential essays of one of the world's most original linguistic scholars and thinkers. They show Pieter Seuren's remarkable erudition from classical antiquity to current theory, his descriptive and theoretical sophistication, and his beautiful clarity of style. They provide many examples of the cogency of his argument and his willingness to speak out trenchantly against accepted wisdom. In the extensive introduction the author describes the evolution of his theoretical position and its development in relation to Chomskyan syntactic theory and model-theoretic semantics. He argues here and throughout the book that grammar and semantics should be studied…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.49" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Introduction



General Theory



Language, World, and Cognitive Processing



Grammar as an Underground Process



Autonomous vs. Semantic Syntax



Doing Sums with Language



Internal Variability in Competence



The Paradoxes and Natural Language



Syntax



Predicate Raising and Dative in French and Sundry Languages



Negative's Travels



Operator Lowering



A Problem in English Subject Complementation



Clitic Pronoun Clusters



Semantics



Presuppositions and the Universe of Interpretation



Logical Form and Semantic Form: An argument against Geach



Lexical Meaning and Presupposition



Presupposition and Negation



Why Does 2 Mean ""2""? Grist to the anti-Grice mill



Towards a Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora



A Discourse-Semantic Account of Topic and Comment



Creole Linguistics



Semantic Transparency as a Factor in Creole Genesis




Serial Verb Constructions



The Auxiliary System in Sranan



The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles