Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar

by Ray S. Jackendoff

Book Overview

Like other recent work in the field of generative-transformational grammar, this book developed from a realization that many problems in linguistics involve semantics too deeply to be solved insightfully within the syntactic theory of Noam Chomsky's Aspect of the Theory of Syntax. Dr Jackendoff has attempted to take a broader view of semantics, studying the important contribution it makes to the syntactic patterns of English. The research is carried...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262100134
• ISBN13: 9780262100137
• Release Date: February 1972
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.