Contrasting English and German Grammar An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics

• Main Author: Beck, Sigrid
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Germany De Gruyter 2014; De Gruyter, Inc; De Gruyter Mouton
• Edition: 1
• Series: Mouton Textbook
• Subjects: English; English language; German; German language; Grammar, Comparative; Grammar, Comparative and general; Language; Semantics, Comparative; Syntax

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...