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Syntax : structure, meaning, and function / Robert D. Van Valin Jr., Randy J. LaPolla.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1997.Description: xxviii, 713 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521495653
  • 9780521499156
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P291 .S968 1997
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Contents:
2. Syntactic structure, I: simple clauses and noun phrases -- 3. Semantic representation, I: verbs and arguments -- 4. Semantic representation, II: macroroles, the lexicon and noun phrases -- 5. Information structure -- 6. Grammatical relations -- 7. Linking syntax and semantics in simple sentences -- 8. Syntactic structure, II: complex sentences and noun phrases -- 9. Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences -- Epilog: the goals of linguistic theory revisited.
Summary: This introduction to syntactic theory and analysis presents syntactic phenomena from a wide range of languages and explains to students the major typological issues that syntactic theories must address. It includes a number of exercises.
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1. The goals of linguistic theory -- 2. Syntactic structure, I: simple clauses and noun phrases -- 3. Semantic representation, I: verbs and arguments -- 4. Semantic representation, II: macroroles, the lexicon and noun phrases -- 5. Information structure -- 6. Grammatical relations -- 7. Linking syntax and semantics in simple sentences -- 8. Syntactic structure, II: complex sentences and noun phrases -- 9. Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences -- Epilog: the goals of linguistic theory revisited.

This introduction to syntactic theory and analysis presents syntactic phenomena from a wide range of languages and explains to students the major typological issues that syntactic theories must address. It includes a number of exercises.

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