Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Robert D. Van Valin

ISBN 10: 0521811791 / ISBN 13: 9780521811798

Published by Cambridge University Press CUP, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Publisher: Cambridge University Press CUP

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across 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, this book discusses in detail how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Clearly written and comprehensive, it will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

About the Author:

Robert D. Van Valin Jr is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the State University of New York, Buffalo.