A view of language - Seuren, Pieter A. M., 1934-2021 (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001)
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-510) and index.
Keywords: Creole dialects; Grammar, Comparative and general; Semantics