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Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 118) - Hardcover

Juan Uriagereka

 
9780521865326: Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 118)

Synopsis

One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation between structure and meaning, and analyzes how it affects the internal properties of words and corresponding syntactic manifestations. Adapting notions from the Evo-Devo project in biology (the idea of 'co-linearity' between structural units and behavioural manifestations) Juan Uriagereka addresses a major puzzle: how words can be both decomposable so as to be acquired by children, and atomic, so that they do not manifest themselves as modular to adults.

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About the Author

Juan Uriagereka is Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA.

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