Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring

by Juan Uriagereka

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521865326
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/08/2008
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics , #118
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. In defense of Deep-Structure; 2. So what's in a Word?; 3. Relational nouns, reference and grammatical relations; 4. Online conditions and parametric variation; 5. Prepositional case throughout; 6. Iteration and related matters; 7. (Re)interpreting the Chomsky hierarchy; 8. Naturalizing meaning; Epilogue. Evo-Devo-Perfo.