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Zusatztext An important and original work by one of the world's leading linguistic theorists. Radical Construction Grammar presents a profound critique of syntactic theory, offers a new approach to syntax, and uncovers the real universals of grammar. It will particularly interest those concerned with theories of grammar and language typology, and with mind/language relations. Informationen zum Autor William Croft received his Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford University in 1986. His publications includeTypology and Universals (1990), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations (1991), Studies in Typology and Diachrony (coedited with Keith Denning and Suzanne Kemmer, 1990), Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach (2000), and a large number of scholarly articles. His current research areas include syntax, semantics, typology, and historical linguistics. Forthcoming books include Cognitive Linguistics (with D. Alan Cruse) and Verbs: Aspect and Argument Structure. Klappentext This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work. Zusammenfassung An important and original work by one the world's leading linguistic theorists. Radical Construction Grammar presents a profound critique of syntactic theory, offers a new approach to syntax, and uncovers the real universals of grammar. It will particularly interest those concerned with theories of grammar and language typology, and with mind/language relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Against Syntactic Categories as Theoretical Primitives 2.: Parts of Speech 3.: Syntactic Categories and Semantic Relativity 4.: Grammatical Relations/Syntactic Roles Part II: Against Syntactic Relations 6.: A Radical Approach to Syntactic Relations 7.: Heads, Complements, and Adjuncts Part III: Against Universal Syntactic Constructions 9.: The Coordination-Subordination Continuum 10.: Syntactic Theory and the Theory of Language ...
