Universal Semantic Syntax(English, Hardcover, Fortuin Egbert)

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Universal Semantic Syntax(English, Hardcover, Fortuin Egbert) is written by Fortuin Egbert and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108476805 (ISBN 10) and 9781108476805 (ISBN 13).

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.