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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2019
      May 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108658683
      9781108476805
      9781108701587
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108658683
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 206 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.313kg, 210 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (160)
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (160)
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    Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its primary starting point the idea that syntax deals with the relations between meanings expressed by form-meaning elements and that the same types of relations can be found cross-linguistically. The theory provides a way to formalize the syntactic relations between meanings so that each fragment of grammar can be analyzed in a clear-cut way. A comprehensive introduction into the theoretical concepts of the theory is provided, with analyzes of numerous examples in English and various other languages, European and non-European, to illustrate the concepts. The theory discussed will enable linguists to look for similarities between languages, while at the same time acknowledging important language specific features.

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    • 2 - Semiotactic Relations and Symbols
      pp 14-27
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