Information-Based Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 1: Fundamentals (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes, No. 13)
By Unknown Author.
Description
A long-standing, near-universal, and erroneous practice of teaching syntax in a void exists, as if the communicative function of language had nothing to do with syntax. And semantics has customarily been taught in sequence after syntax, or else not at all. Based upon graduate courses taught at Stanford University, this work seeks to redress this situation by building up syntactic and semantic aspects of grammatical theory in an integrated way from the start, under the assumption that neither is of linguistic interest divorced from the other. The particular theory presented, head-driven phra...
ISBN(s)
0937073245, 9780937073247
