Information-Based Syntax and Semantics Volume 1 Fundamentals

Pollard, Carl & Sag, Ivan A.

ISBN 10: 0937073245 / ISBN 13: 9780937073247

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Information, Menlo Park, CA, 1987

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233 pages; 6 x 8 7/8" This is Volume 1 only. CSLI Lecture Notes, Number 13. Light creasing and wear to spine and cover edges and corners; two 1/2" tears to rear cover top edge that is repaired with clear tape. Seller Inventory # 127317

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Title: Information-Based Syntax and Semantics ...

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Menlo Park, CA

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: paperback

Condition: very good

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Synopsis:

A long-standing, near-universal, and erroneous practice of teaching syntax in a void exists, as if the communicative function of language had nothing to do with syntax. And semantics has customarily been taught in sequence after syntax, or else not at all. Based upon graduate courses taught at Stanford University, this work seeks to redress this situation by building up syntactic and semantic aspects of grammatical theory in an integrated way...

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