A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories Hardback
by John M. (University of Edinburgh) Anderson
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics series
Hardback
Description
This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define.
It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically).
It allows for there to be peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to the general definition.
The author proposes a notation based on semantic features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes.
The book also presents a case for considering this classification - again in rather traditional vein - to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of sentences.
Syntactic structure is thus erected in a very restricted fashion, without recourse to movement or empty elements.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/04/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521580236
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/04/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521580236
