The Semantics of Grammar

by Anna Wierzbicka

Presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which demonstrates, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither "autonomous" nor "arbitrary", but that it "follows from semantics". The author develops a semantic metalanguage based on lexical universals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027230226
• ISBN13: 9789027230225
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 617 Pages