Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar

by Robert D. Van Valin Jr., William A. Foley, Robert D. Van Valin Jr

The key argument of this book, originally published in 1984, is that when human beings communicate with each other by means of a natural language they typically do not do so in simple sentences but rather in connected discourse - complex expressions made up of a number of clauses linked together in various ways. A necessary precondition for intelligible discourse is the speaker's ability to signal the temporal relations between the events that are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521269040
• ISBN13: 9780521269049
• Release Date: October 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"