"The semantics of grammar" presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on a
During the last thirty years, most linguists and philosophers have assumed that meaning can be represented symbolically and that the mental processing of langua
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure i
The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in lin
Grammar and Meaning is an introduction to the study of grammar of contemporary English. It provides an impressive survey of all the main areas of English gramma