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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787189203321

Autore

Beck Sigrid

Titolo

Contrasting English and German grammar : an introduction to syntax and semantics / / Sigrid Beck, Remus Gergel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-11-037352-1

3-11-034619-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Mouton Textbook

Classificazione

ET 750

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Grammar, Comparative - German

German language - Grammar, Comparative - English

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Semantics, Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Structure and Meaning: An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics -- Chapter I-1 Introduction to the field: Syntax and semantics -- Chapter I-2 Categories, phrases and phrase structure rules -- Chapter I-3 A systematic way of constructing phrases -- Chapter I-4 Clause structure and movement -- Chapter I-5 Goals and methods in semantics -- Chapter I-6 Composing sentence meanings - first steps -- Chapter I-7 Extending the theory -- Chapter I-8 NP semantics -- Appendix: Syntactic and semantic rules from Part I -- Part II. Extending the Theory and Applying it to Cross linguistic Differences -- Chapter II-1 Introduction and roadmap to the second part -- Chapter II-2 Clause structure - English and German -- Chapter II-3 Quantifiers and scope -- Chapter II-4 Negation and polarity -- Chapter II-5 Focus -- Chapter II-6 Ellipsis -- Chapter II-7 Tense and aspect -- Chapter II-8 Conclusions -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are



applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.