TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Valin,Robert D.
AU  - LaPolla,Randy J.
TI  - Syntax: structure, meaning, and function 
T2  - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
SN  - 9780521495653
AV  - P291 .S968 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Cambridge, U.K., New York, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Semantics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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