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Contrasting English and German Grammar
An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
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Sigrid Beck
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.
- Accessible introduction to contemporary formal semantics
- Step-by-step derivations of meaning in tandem with syntactic structure
- Training in modelling cross-linguistic differences in syntax and semantics
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Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen, Germany; Remus Gergel, University of Graz, Austria.
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Preface
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Contents
vii - Part I. Structure and Meaning: An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
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Chapter I-1 Introduction to the field: Syntax and semantics
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Chapter I-2 Categories, phrases and phrase structure rules
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Chapter I-3 A systematic way of constructing phrases
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Chapter I-4 Clause structure and movement
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Chapter I-5 Goals and methods in semantics
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Chapter I-6 Composing sentence meanings – first steps
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Chapter I-7 Extending the theory
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Chapter I-8 NP semantics
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Appendix: Syntactic and semantic rules from Part I
144 - Part II. Extending the Theory and Applying it to Crosslinguistic Differences
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Chapter II-1 Introduction and roadmap to the second part
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Chapter II-2 Clause structure - English and German
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Chapter II-3 Quantifiers and scope
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Chapter II-4 Negation and polarity
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Chapter II-5 Focus
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Chapter II-6 Ellipsis
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Chapter II-7 Tense and aspect
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Chapter II-8 Conclusions
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References
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Index
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June 23, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9783110346190
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May 26, 2014
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9783110300055
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