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An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions

By Paul M. Postal , Jerrold J. Katz

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1978
ISBN
0262610213, 9780262610216
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26726094 bytes)
Pages
190\200
Time added
2016-11-22 01:59:37
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Description

The authors offer a theory concerning the nature of a linguistic description, that is, a theoretical statement about the kind of description that a linguist is able to give of a natural language. This theory seeks to integrate the generative conception of phonology and syntax developed by Chomsky and Halle, with the conception of semantics proposed by Katz and Fodor. The authors demonstrate that the integration within one theory of these conceptions of phonology, syntax, and semantics clarifies, further systematizes, and justifies each of them. They also show that such integration sheds considerable light upon the nature of linguistic universals, that is, upon the nature of language. Primary focus is placed on the relation between the syntactic and the semantic components of a linguistic description.

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