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Semantic Syntax
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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. ...
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09 November 2017

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.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 438
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Publication Date:
09 November 2017
ISBN: 9789004353527
Format: Hardcover
Pieter Seuren(PhD Utrecht 1969), was lecturer in linguistics at Cambridge and Oxford between 1967 and 1974, professor of linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen between 1974 and 1999, and has been research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, since 1999. He authored 13 books and ±170 articles.