Contrasting English and German grammar

an introduction to syntax and semantics

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Sigrid Beck
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Contrasting English and German grammar

an introduction to syntax and semantics

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"This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilitate an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory."--Back cover

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Language
English
Pages
315

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Table of Contents

Part 1. Structure and meaning: an introduction to syntax and semantics
Introduction to the field: syntax and semantics
Categories, phrases and phrase structure rules
A systematic way of constructing phrases
Clause structure and movement
Goals and methods in semantics
Composing sentence meanings-first steps
Extending the theory
NP semantics
Appendix: syntactic and semantic rules for Part 1
Part 2. Extending the theory and applying it to crosslinguistic differences
Introduction and roadmap to the second part
Clause sturcture-English and German
Quantifiers and scope
Negation and polarity
Focus
Ellipsis
Tense and aspect
Conclusions.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-311), appendix, and index.

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Berlin, Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
425
Library of Congress
PE1099 .B43 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 315 pages
Number of pages
315

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31002869M
ISBN 10
3110300052
ISBN 13
9783110300055, 9783110346190
LCCN
2013497467
OCLC/WorldCat
880913207

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