
Semantic Syntax
Second Revised Edition
Pieter Seuren(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 2. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-90-04-35430-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages.
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Series
Edition
approx. xix, 375 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
368 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-35430-2 (9789004354302)
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Pieter Seuren(PhD Utrecht 1969) was lecturer in linguistics at Cambridge and Oxford (1967-1974), professor of linguistics Radboud University Nijmegen (1974-1999), and has been research fellow Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen since 1999. He authored 13 books and +/-170 articles.