Contrasting English and German Grammar An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics

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 d...

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Main Author Beck, Sigrid
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2014
De Gruyter, Inc
De Gruyter Mouton
Edition1
SeriesMouton Textbook
Subjects
English
English language
German
German language
Grammar, Comparative
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language
Semantics, Comparative
Syntax
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9783110346190
3110346192
3110300052
9783110300055