The Semantics of Syntax: A Minimalist Approach to Grammar

by Denis Bouchard

Book Overview

During the last thirty years, most linguists and philosophers have assumed that meaning can be represented symbolically and that the mental processing of language involves the manipulation of symbols. Scholars have assembled strong evidence that there must be linguistic representations at several abstract levels--phonological, syntactic, and semantic--and that those representations are related by a describable system of rules. Because meaning is so...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226067335
• ISBN13: 9780226067339
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"