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A view of language
- Title
- A view of language / Pieter A.M. Seuren.
- Author
- Seuren, Pieter A. M.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | P151 .S43 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiv, 517 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Collection of 22 articles and parts of articles or books originally published 1972-1999, some originally in foreign languages which have been translated into English by the author for this publication.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-510) and index.
- Contents
- Language, world, and cognitive processing -- Grammar as an underground process -- Autonomous versus 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 / with Herman Chr. Wekker -- Serial verb constructions -- Tense and aspect in Sranan -- The question of predicate clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles.
- ISBN
- 0199244812
- LCCN
- 2001024733
- OCLC
- ocm46777460
- SCSB-4257218
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries