LINGUIST List 21.4797 Mon Nov 29 2010 Books: Pragmatics/Semantics/Syntax: Butler Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Jessica Davis , The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies: Butler Message 1: The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies: Butler Date: 25-Nov-2010 From: Jessica Davis <jdavisemeraldinsight.com> Subject: The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies: Butler E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies Series Title: Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface Published: 2010 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited                 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Book URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Semantics-Grammatical-Dependencies-pragmatics-Interface/dp/1849509883/ref=sr Author: Alastair Butler Hardback: ISBN: 9781849509886 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 62.95 Abstract: "The Semantics of Grammatical Dependencies" argues that constraints of interaction from semantic evaluations enforce grammatical dependency patterns that recur across natural languages and within constructions at intra and inter sentential levels as well as discourse levels. The book develops along three lines. Firstly, a handle is gained on why languages are structured around localities, with localities functioning as actions of 'reset' to permit the reuse of grammatical resources that maintain a fixed semantic contribution. Secondly, sensitivity is brought to the linear and hierarchical placement of scope information to capture ordering effects like accessibility, crossover and intervention. Thirdly, an interestingly different perspective is reached on what it means to be grammatical: rather than being a destructive feature that bans or filters out bad structure, grammaticality takes on a role of constructive guidance that keeps languages to what are generally unambiguous canonical forms that moreover guarantee required dependencies. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, post- graduate and research students and all researchers in the formal analysis of the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of natural language. Table of Contents 1 - Introduction 2 - Argument Dependencies 3 - Clause Dependencies 4 - Unbounded Dependencies 5 - Intervention and Binding into Relations 6 - Quantification in Japanese 7 - Concluding Remarks For more information, and to discuss review copies or adoption of the book, please contact jdavisemeraldinsight.com Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics                             Semantics                             Syntax Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=51708 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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