Patrick Duffley

Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book steers a middle course between the logical and cognitive approaches to semantics. Patrick Duffley argues for a radical revision of the semantics/pragmatics interface, proposing that the dividing line be drawn between content that is linguistically encoded and content that is not encoded but still communicated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 249mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780198850700
• ISBN-10: 0198850700
• Artikelnr.: 60191172

Autorenporträt

Patrick Duffley is Professor of English Linguistics at Université Laval in Quebec City. His research uses concepts inspired by cognitive grammar and Guillaumian psychomechanical theory to develop a properly linguistic-semantic approach to grammar and syntax. He has published monographs on the English infinitive and gerund-participle, as well as numerous articles on modal auxiliaries, wh-words, negative polarity, indefinite determiners, and both full verb and auxiliary inversion. His most recent book, Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon , was published by John Benjamins in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introductory remarks on the question of the autonomy of syntax
2: The truth-conditional approach to meaning
3: Sign-based semantics: Meaning as linguistically-signified cognitive content
4: Cognitive semantics and the semiological function of language
5: A final comparison with the Columbia School approach to meaning
6: Concluding reflections on natural language and embodiment