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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Edited By: Robert D Van Valin
URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20105
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 105
Description:

Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari' (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax

Versions:
Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027290335
Pages: 508
Prices: U.S. $ 173.00
Europe EURO 115.00
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027205728
Pages: 508
Prices: Europe EURO 115.00
U.S. $ 173.00