Radical Construction Grammar

Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-829955-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 834 g

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. The essence of the approach is (a) that almost all aspects of grammatical structure are language specific, and (b) that language universals are to be found in conceptual structure and in the mapping of conceptual structure on to linguistic form. It proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but syntactic-semantic 'Gestalts'.

Professor Croft puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work. He covers a wide range of syntactic phenomena, illustrating these with examples that show the varied grammatical structures of the world's languages. The book will be accessible all linguists at graduate level and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Croft, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Against Syntactic Categories as Theoretical Primitives

- 2.: Parts of Speech

- 3.: Syntactic Categories and Semantic Relativity

- 4.: Grammatical Relations/Syntactic Roles

- Part II: Against Syntactic Relations

- 6.: A Radical Approach to Syntactic Relations

- 7.: Heads, Complements, and Adjuncts

- Part III: Against Universal Syntactic Constructions

- 9.: The Coordination-Subordination Continuum

- 10.: Syntactic Theory and the Theory of Language

Über Autor(innen)

William Croft received his Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford University in 1986. His publications includeTypology and Universals (1990), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations (1991), Studies in Typology and Diachrony (coedited with Keith Denning and Suzanne Kemmer, 1990), Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach (2000), and a large number of scholarly articles. His current research areas include syntax, semantics, typology, and historical linguistics. Forthcoming books include Cognitive Linguistics (with D. Alan Cruse) and Verbs: Aspect and Argument Structure.