A view of language

Seuren, Pieter Albertus Maria (1934-....)

A view of language [Texte imprimé] / Pieter A.M. Seuren - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 - 1 vol. (xxiv-517 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Index

Bibliogr. p. [496]-510

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 transperency 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

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Grammar, Comparative and general Semantics Creole dialects

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