Coreference, modality, and focus; studies on the syntax-semantics interface.9789027233752 Coreference Noun 1. coreference - the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent grammatical relation - a linguistic relation established by grammar , modality, and focus; studies on the syntax-semantics interface. Ed. by Luis Eguren and Olga Fernandez Soriano. John Benjamins John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences and humanities with offices in Amsterdam (main office) and Philadelphia (North American office). It is especially noted for its publications in linguistics. Publishing Co. 2007 239 pages $149.00 Hardcover Linguistik Aktuell/Linguitics Today; v.111 P291 A rigorous selection of 10 papers from an April 2006 conference on generative grammar generative grammar Finite set of formal rules that will produce all the grammatical sentences of a language. The idea of a generative grammar was first definitively articulated by Noam Chomsky in Syntactic Structures (1957). , held in Madrid, offers insights into persistent debates in theoretical linguistics For the journal, see . Theoretical linguistics is the branch of linguistics that is most concerned with developing models of linguistic knowledge. Part of this endeavor involves the search for and explanation of linguistic universals, that is, properties all languages have . They address current syntactic and/or interpretive issues within the generative framework, mostly dealing with co-reference, modality, and focus/ellipsis. One paper on syntactic computation managed to sneak through the process, but all the rest discuss phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantic interface domain. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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