Semantic Syntax

Second Revised Edition
approx. xix, 375 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-35430-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 715 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seuren, Pieter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Pieter Seuren(PhD Utrecht 1969) was lecturer in linguistics at Cambridge and Oxford (1967-1974), professor of linguistics Radboud University Nijmegen (1974-1999), and has been research fellow Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen since 1999. He authored 13 books and ±170 articles.