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Syntactic Categories - Their Identification and Description in Linguistic Theories (Hardcover) Loot Price: R7,537
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Syntactic Categories - Their Identification and Description in Linguistic Theories (Hardcover): Gisa Rauh

Syntactic Categories - Their Identification and Description in Linguistic Theories (Hardcover)

Gisa Rauh

Series: Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology No.7

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This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis - and explains their place in different theories of language. It sets out and clarifies the conflicting definitions of competing frameworks which frequently make it hard or impossible to compare grammars.
Gisa Rauh describes the history and nature of traditional and contemporary accounts and definitions of grammatical categories. She explains their properties and use in generative, cognitive, and functional theories, and considers their function in language typology. She distinguishes between the cognitive functions of categories that relate to traditional parts of speech and serve to structure a language's lexicon; and those which determine the syntactic behaviour of the linguistic items they specify.
Professor Rauh illustrates her account with a wide range of examples. Her clear and balanced exposition will be welcomed by students and scholars in all branches of linguistics as well as by those in related subjects such as computational science and the philosophy of language.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology No.7
Release date: June 2010
First published: July 2010
Authors: Gisa Rauh
Dimensions: 249 x 178 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928142-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-928142-4
Barcode: 9780199281428

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