Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Robert D. van Valin, Jr.

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511610578

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of figures
pp ix-xiii

List of tables
pp xiv-xvi

Preface
pp xvii-xvii

List of abbreviations
pp xviii-xxii

Introduction
pp 1-2

1 - Syntactic structure
pp 3-30

2 - Lexical representation and semantic roles
pp 31-67

3 - Information structure
pp 68-88

4 - Syntactic relations and case marking
pp 89-127

5 - Linking syntactic and semantic representations in simple sentences
pp 128-182

6 - The structure of complex sentences
pp 183-224

7 - Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences
pp 225-293

References
pp 294-303

Languages index
pp 304-305

Subject index
pp 306-310

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