Syntactic Categories - Their Identification and Description in Linguistic Theories

Informationen zum Autor Gisa Rauh has been Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Wuppertal since 1985. She taught previously at Göttingen University and the Free University of Berlin. Her areas of research include theoretical and empirical aspects of deixis, the theory of thematic relations, the syntax of prepositions and prepositional phrases in English, aspects of the lexicon, and linguistic categorization. She has been involved in various large-scale projects, among them Theory of the Lexicon and the European Network Project in the Area of Languages. Her books include Linguistische Beschreibung deiktischer Komplexität in narrativen Texten (Narr, 1978), Essays on Deixis (Narr, 1983), Tiefenkasus, thematische Relationen und Thetarollen. Die Entwicklung einer Theorie von semantischen Relationen (Narr, 1988) and, with Elisabeth Löbel, Lexikalische Kategorien und Merkmale (Niemeyer, 1997). Klappentext This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis, and explains their description in different formal as well as functional theories of language, including language typology. Its clear and balanced exposition will be widely welcomed by students. Zusammenfassung This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis, and explains their description in different formal as well as functional theories of language, including language typology. Its clear and balanced exposition will be widely welcomed by students.

Product details

• Authors: Gisa Rauh, Gisa (University of Wuppertal) Rauh, Rauh Gisa
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780199281428
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928142-8
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology; Oxford Surveys in Syntax and M; Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology No.7; Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology No.7; Oxford Surveys in Syntax and M; Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Mor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology