Natural Language Syntax

Name: Natural Language Syntax
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ISBN: 9780199230181

ISBN-10: 0199230188

ISBN-13: 9780199230181

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter W. Culicover

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In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languagesuse, and on the conceptual structures that correspond to particular aspects of linguistic form. He seeks to explain linguistic forms and in the process to show how these correspond with meanings. The book's clear, step-by-step exposition is presented within the Simpler Syntax framework whose development has been led by the author and Ray Jackendoff over the last fifteen years. This integrates syntactic…

Book details

List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.69" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English




Overview



Syntactic Categories



Basic Sentential Structure



Phrasal Categories



Conceptual Structure and the Lexicon



Argument Correspondences



Complex Clauses: Raising and Control



Predication



A' Constructions


Glossary of Terms


References


Index