Syntactic anchors : on semantic structuring / Juan Uriagereka.
One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation between structure and meaning, and analyzes how it affects the internal properti...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
no. 118. |
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| Summary: | One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation between structure and meaning, and analyzes how it affects the internal properties of words and corresponding syntactic manifestations. Adapting notions from the Evo-Devo project in biology (the idea of 'co-linearity' between structural units and behavioural manifestations) Juan Uriagereka addresses a major puzzle: how words can be both decomposable so as to be acquired by children, and atomic, so that they do not manifest themselves as modular to adults. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511397488 9780511396717 0511396716 0511399065 9780511399060 9780511397486 9780511481482 0511481489 9786611383299 6611383298 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511481482 |