Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

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  • Author : Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
  • Release Date : 2021-05-18
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 330
  • ISBN 13 : 1527569691
  • File Size : 41,41 MB
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Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Robert D. Van Valin Jr. PDF Summary

Book Description: This volume brings together recent scholarship addressing a number of significant issues in linguistic theory and description, including verb classification, case marking, comparative constructions, noun phrase structure, clause linkage and reference-tracking in discourse. These topics are discussed with respect to a wide range of languages, including Bamunka (Bantu), Biblical Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Pitjantjatjara (Australia), Russian and Taiwan Sign Language. The theoretical perspective employed in these analyses is that of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a theory which strives to describe language structure and grammatical phenomena in terms of the interaction of syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics. RRG differs from other parallel-architecture, constructionally-oriented theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations. The ability of RRG to facilitate the formulation of cross-linguistic generalizations is exemplified well in the contributions to this volume. As such, this text makes important theoretical and descriptive contributions to contemporary linguistic discussions.

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