A view of language
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- A view of language
- Jaar:
- 2001
- Onderwerp:
- Creole dialects
Grammar, Comparative and general
Semantics
Linguïstiek - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001
- Plaatsnummer:
- ISBN:
- 0199244812
- Paginering:
- Xxiv, 517 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Reeks:
- Oxford linguistics
- Samenvatting:
- Language, world, and cognitive processing -- Grammar as an underground process -- Autonomous versus semantic syntax -- Doing sums with language -- Internal variability in competence -- The paradoxes and natural language -- Predicate raising and dative in French and sundry languages -- Negative's travels -- Operator lowering -- A problem in English subject complementation -- Clitic pronoun clusters -- Presuppositions and the universe of interpretation -- Logical form and semantic form : an argument against Geach -- Lexical meaning and presupposition -- Presupposition and negation -- Why does 2 mean "2"? : grist to the anti-Grice mill -- Towards a discourse-semantic account of donkey anaphora -- A discourse-semantic account of topic and comment -- Semantic transperency as a factor in Creole genesis / with Herman Chr. Wekker -- Serial verb constructions -- Tense and aspect in Sranan -- The question of predicate clefting in the Indian Ocean creoles.
- Nota:
- Collection of 22 articles and parts of articles or books originally published 1972-1999, some originally in foreign languages which have been translated into English by the author for this publication.
- Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/cgw01:000569776
