A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories

by John Mathieson Anderson

Book Overview

This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). It allows for there to be peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to the general definition. The author proposes a notation based on semantic features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes. The book also presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521580234
• ISBN13: 9780521580236
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"