Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Valin Robert D. Van

ISBN 10: 0521811791 / ISBN 13: 9780521811798

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2005

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pp. 332.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521811791
• ISBN 13: 9780521811798
• 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.