Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521811798)

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. Written within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar, which proposes a set of rules to link semantic and syntactic relations to each other, this book discusses in detail how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Clearly written and comprehensive, it will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

Author: Robert D. Van Valin Jr
ISBN-10: 0521811791
ISBN-13: 9780521811798
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2005
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.98h x 7.10w x 0.99d