Semantics in Generative Grammar

Informationen zum Autor Irene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1987) and, with Angelika Kratzer, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics. Angelika Kratzer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and, with Irene Heim, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics. Klappentext Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the "Government-Binding" model. It covers the fundamental constructions thoroughly with analyses, but goes well beyond that core, providing extensive discussion of quantification, binding and anaphora, and ellipsis. With exercises and guides to further reading, the volume will be a key text for graduate level and advanced undergraduate introductory courses in semantics. Zusammenfassung Offers an systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the 'Government-Binding' model. This book covers the fundamental constructions with analyses! and also provides discussion of quantification! binding and anaphora! and ellipsis. It is intended for graduate level introductory courses in semantics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix 1 Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program 1 2 Executing the Fregean Program 13 3 Semantics and Syntax 43 4 More of English: Nonverbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions 61 5 Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding 86 6 Quantifiers: Their Semantic Type 131 7 Quantification and Grammar 178 8 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Quantifier Movement 209 9 Bound and Referential Pronouns and Ellipsis 239 10 Syntactic and Semantic Binding 260 11 E-Type Anaphora 277 12 First Steps Towards an Intensional Semantics 299 Index 313 ...

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• Authors: Arene Heim, I Heim, Irene Heim, Irene (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Heim, Heim Irene, Angelika Kratzer, Angelika (University of Massachusetts) Kratzer, Kratzer Angelika
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.1997
• EAN: 9780631197133
• ISBN: 978-0-631-19713-3
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 246 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics; Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc