A View of Language
Series: Oxford Linguistics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 January 2002
- ISBN 9780199244812
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 241x162x32 mm
- Weight 896 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures 0
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Short description:
This book collects the best work of one of the world's most original linguistic thinkers. In an extensive introduction Pieter Seuren describes the evolution of his theoretical position. He argues throughout the book that grammar and semantics should be studied as branches of cognitive science, developing and applying an elegant and explanatory theory of semantic syntax. The four parts, dealing with general theory, syntax, semantics, and the linguistics of creoles, include the author's most frequently cited papers plus several published in English for the first time. This is a book of real, enduring value.
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This book collects the best and most influential essays of one of the world's most original linguistic scholars and thinkers. They show Pieter Seuren's remarkable erudition from classical antiquity to current theory, his descriptive and theoretical sophistication, and his beautiful clarity of style. They provide many examples of the cogency of his argument and his willingness to speak out trenchantly against accepted wisdom.
In the extensive introduction the author describes the evolution of his theoretical position and its development in relation to Chomskyan syntactic theory and model-theoretic semantics. He argues here and throughout the book that grammar and semantics should be studied as branches of cognitive science, not as mere formalisms. He propounds, develops, and applies a theory of semantic syntax in which a grammar is seen as a mediating device between propositionally structured thoughts and corresponding surface structures. He rejects conventional notions of autonomous grammar as unsustainable and, in a realist theory of language, unnecessary. He demonstrates that his semantic theory achieves empirically adequate and formally precise explanatory generalizations, developing a theory of discourse semantics as a means of providing elegant accounts of topic-comment structure.
The twenty-two essays are divided into four parts dealing broadly with general theory, syntax, semantics, and the linguistics of creole languages. Many of the author's classic papers will be found here, including those on autonomous versus semantic syntax, predicate raising and datives, clitic pronoun clusters, donkey anaphora ('every man who owns a donkey beats it'), serial verb constructions, and many more. Provocative and thoughtful, accessible and entertaining, they add up to a book of real, enduring value.
This book collects the best work of one of the world's most original linguistic thinkers ... This is a book of real, enduring value.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Language, World, and Cognitive Processing
Grammar as an Underground Process
Autonomous vs. Semantic Syntax
Doing Sums with Language
Internal Variability in Competence
The Paradoxes and Natural Language
Predicate Raising and Dative in French and Sundry Languages
Negative's Travels
Operator Lowering
A Problem in English Subject Complementation
Clitic Pronoun Clusters
Presuppositions and the Universe of Interpretation
Logical Form and Semantic Form: An argument against Geach
Lexical Meaning and Presupposition
Presupposition and Negation
Why Does 2 Mean "2"? Grist to the anti-Grice mill
Towards a Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora
A Discourse-Semantic Account of Topic and Comment
Semantic Transparency as a Factor in Creole Genesis
Serial Verb Constructions
The Auxiliary System in Sranan
The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles
