Semantics and Syntax - Parallels and Connections

Zusammenfassung This book is concerned with the relationship between semantics and surface structure and in particular with the way in which each is mapped into the other. Jim Miller argues that semantic and syntactic structure require different representations and that semantic structure is far more complex than many analysts realise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. On morphology and syntax; Part II. Prepositions, particles, prefixes and adverbs: a semantic analysis; Part III. Localism: a theory of semantic structure; Part IV. GET; Part V. On the connections between semantics and syntax; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: J. Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521108294
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10829-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics