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Author / Creator:	Seuren, Pieter A. M., author.
Edition:	Second revised edition.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 11
Subject:	Semantics. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Generative grammar. Generative grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Semantics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12017948

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ISBN:	9789004354296 9004354298 9004354298 9789004353527
Notes:	"The First edition of this hardback was originally published in paperback by Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, in 1996 under ISBN 978-0-631-16006-9." Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages.
Other form:	Print version: Seuren, Pieter A.M. Semantic syntax. Second revised edition. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004353527

Table of Contents:

Front Matter / Pieter A. M. Seuren
For my son Raj / Pieter A. M. Seuren
Editor's Foreword / Pieter A. M. Seuren
Preface to the First Edition / Pieter A. M. Seuren
Preface to the Second Edition / Pieter A. M. Seuren
Introduction / Pieter A. M. Seuren
Some Formal Properties of Grammars, Trees and Rules / Pieter A. M. Seuren
The English Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren
The French Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren
The Dutch Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren
The German Auxiliary and Complementation System / Pieter A. M. Seuren
Any Other Business / Pieter A. M. Seuren.