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Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring

By Juan Uriagereka

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521865328, 9780521865326, 9780511396717, 9780511481482
LCC
P295 .U75 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2478288 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Edition
1
Pages
368\369
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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