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Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective

By William Croft

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2001
ISBN
9780198299547, 9780198299547
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12730325 bytes)
Series
Oxford linguistics
Pages
448\444
Time added
2014-03-22 00:58:26

Description

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.

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