Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

Book Overview

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Working within the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521811791
• ISBN13: 9780521811798
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.0"