Information-Based Syntax and Semantics: Volume 1, Fundamentals

by Ivan A. Sag and Carl Pollard

Book Overview

A long-standing, near-universal, and erroneous practice of teaching syntax in a void exists, as if the communicative function of language had nothing to do with syntax. And semantics has customarily been taught in sequence after syntax, or else not at all. Based upon graduate courses taught at Stanford University, this work seeks to redress this situation by building up syntactic and semantic aspects of grammatical theory in an integrated way from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937073245
• ISBN13: 9780937073247
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.