TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fortuin,Egbert Lambertus Johan
AU  - Geerdink-Verkoren,Hetty
TI  - Universal semantic syntax: a semiotactic approach 
T2  - Cambridge studies in linguistics
SN  - 9781108757836
AV  - P291 .F59 2019eb
U1  - 415.01 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Semiotactic Theory: 1. Basic theoretical principles; 2. Semiotacti relations and symbols; 3. Sentences: nexus (subject-predicate relation); 4. Valences; 5. Set expression 'SE'; 6. Nexus relation as entity (Bahuvrihi); 7. Negation; 8. The auxiliary verb 'do'; 9. Appositions; 10. Formal and syntactic sentences; 11. Abstraction; 12. The basic principles of the formalization; Part II. Application of the Theory: 1. Noun Modifications; 2. Verb constructions; 3. Impersonal Constructions; 4. Other constructions in non-European languages; 5. Word order and propositional contents; Conclusion: the syntactic theory from a semantic perspective
N2  - "Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its primary starting point the idea that syntax deals with the relations between meanings expressed by form-meaning elements and that the same types of relations can be found cross-linguistically. The theory provides a way to formalize the syntactic relations between meanings so that each fragment of grammar can be analyzed in a clear-cut way. A comprehensive introduction into the theoretical concepts of the theory is provided, with analyzes of numerous examples in English and various other languages, European and non-European, to illustrate the concepts. The theory discussed will enable linguists to look for similarities between languages, while at the same time acknowledging important language specific features"--; "Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax"--
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