Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar - Rilegato

Foley, William A.; Van Valin Jr, Robert D.

 
9780521259569: Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar

Sinossi

This book is an important attempt to integrate the study of linguistic form with the study of language use and meaning.

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Descrizione del libro

A great deal of the grammatical machinery in a language is devoted to the speaker's ability to signal the temporal relations between different events and different people making it clear who is being talked about. Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar explores how different grammatical systems accomplish this.

Contenuti

List of tables; List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. The semantic structure of the clause; 3. Case marking; 4. Intraclausal syntax; 5. Juncture and operators; 6. Nexus; 7. Systems of discourse cohesion: reference-tracking mechanisms; List of tables; List of figures.

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Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521269040 ISBN 13:  9780521269049
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009
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