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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Paperback)
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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Paperback)
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Language is a system of communication in which grammatical
structures function to express meaning in context. While all
languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each
use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent
ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across
languages. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and
communicative function interact in human languages. Working within
the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), Van Valin
proposes a set of rules, called the 'linking algorithm', which
relates syntactic and semantic representations to each other, with
discourse-pragmatics playing a role in the linking. Using this
model, he discusses the full range of grammatical phenomena,
including the structures of simple and complex sentences, verb and
argument structure, voice, reflexivization and extraction
restrictions. Clearly written and comprehensive, this book will be
welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax,
semantics and pragmatics.
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