Contrasting English and German Grammar

Sigrid Beck; Remus Gergel

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2014

Contrasting English and German Grammar

An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics

Sigrid Beck and Remus Gergel

In the series Mouton Textbook

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346190

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About this book

This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.

Accessible introduction to contemporary formal semantics
Step-by-step derivations of meaning in tandem with syntactic structure
Training in modelling cross-linguistic differences in syntax and semantics

Author information

Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen, Germany; Remus Gergel, University of Graz, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I. Structure and Meaning: An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
Chapter I-1 Introduction to the field: Syntax and semantics Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter I-2 Categories, phrases and phrase structure rules Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	18
Chapter I-3 A systematic way of constructing phrases Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter I-4 Clause structure and movement Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter I-5 Goals and methods in semantics Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter I-6 Composing sentence meanings – first steps Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter I-7 Extending the theory Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter I-8 NP semantics Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	123
Appendix: Syntactic and semantic rules from Part I Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	144
Part II. Extending the Theory and Applying it to Crosslinguistic Differences
Chapter II-1 Introduction and roadmap to the second part Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter II-2 Clause structure - English and German Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter II-3 Quantifiers and scope Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter II-4 Negation and polarity Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter II-5 Focus Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter II-6 Ellipsis Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	253
Chapter II-7 Tense and aspect Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	269
Chapter II-8 Conclusions Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	292
References Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	298
Index Requires Authentication Licensed Download PDF	312

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 315
Keywords: Syntax; Semantics

eBook

Published: June 23, 2014
ISBN: 9783110346190

Hardcover

Published: May 26, 2014
ISBN: 9783110300055