Word grammar [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on a theory of language structure / / edited by Kensei Sugayama and Richard Hudson

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Dependency grammar; Generative grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order; English language - Semantics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SugayamaKensei HudsonRichard A
• Note generali: "This volume comes from a three-year (April 2002-March 2005) research project on word grammar supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"--Preface.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. What is Word Grammar?; Part I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis: Its explanatory power and applications; Part II: Towards a Better Word Grammar; Conclusion; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other. The most controversial idea in Word Grammar syntax is that phrase structure is redundant, because all its work can be done by means of dependencies between individual words. Word-word depen
• Titolo autorizzato: Word grammar
• ISBN: 1-4411-8652-2; 1-281-29498-5; 9786611294984; 1-84714-273-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451331103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II