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Syntactic Anchors

On Semantic Structuring

Juan Uriagereka author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th May '08

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An examination of the relationship between structure and meaning in words.

One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation between structure and meaning in words.One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation between structure and meaning, and analyzes how it affects the internal properties of words and corresponding syntactic manifestations. Adapting notions from the Evo-Devo project in biology (the idea of 'co-linearity' between structural units and behavioural manifestations) Juan Uriagereka addresses a major puzzle: how words can be both decomposable so as to be acquired by children, and atomic, so that they do not manifest themselves as modular to adults.

ISBN: 9780521865326

Dimensions: 235mm x 160mm x 25mm

Weight: 720g

368 pages