Publications

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  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1981). Tense and aspect in Sranan. Linguistics, 19(11/12), 1043-1076. doi:10.1515/ling.1981.19.11-12.1043.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1981). Taaluniversalia. In W. De Geest, R. Dirven, & Y. Putseys (Eds.), Twintig facetten van de taalwetenschap (pp. 112-126). Louvain: Acco.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1981). Taalvariatie en de variabele regel. Gramma, 5(1), 51-54.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). [Review of the book A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language by Ernst Klein]. Neophilologus, 57(4), 423-426. doi:10.1007/BF01515518.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). [Review of the book Philosophy of language by Robert J. Clack and Bertrand Russell]. Foundations of Language, 9(3), 440-441.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). [Review of the book Semantics. An interdisciplinary reader in philosophy, linguistics and psychology ed. by Danny D. Steinberg and Leon A. Jakobovits]. Neophilologus, 57(2), 198-213. doi:10.1007/BF01514332.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). Generative Semantik: Semantische syntax. Düsseldorf: Schwann Verlag.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). The comparative. In F. Kiefer, & N. Ruwet (Eds.), Generative grammar in Europe (pp. 528-564). Reidel: Dordrecht.

    Abstract

    No idea is older in the history of linguistics than the thought that there is, somehow hidden underneath the surface of sentences, a form or a structure which provides a semantic analysis and lays bare their logical structure. In Plato’s Cratylus the theory was proposed, deriving from Heraclitus’ theory of explanatory underlying structure in physical nature, that words contain within themselves bits of syntactic structure giving their meanings. The Stoics held the same view and maintained moreover that every sentence has an underlying logical structure, which for them was the Aristotelian subject- predicate form. They even proposed transformational processes to derive the surface from the deep structure. The idea of a semantically analytic logical form underlying the sentences of every language kept reappearing in various guises at various times. Quite recently it re-emerged under the name of generative semantics.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). Predicate raising and dative in French and Sundry languages. Trier: L.A.U.T. (Linguistic Agency University of Trier).
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). The new approach to the study of language. In B. Douglas (Ed.), Linguistics and the mind (pp. 11-20). Sydney: Sydney University Extension Board.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1973). Zero-output rules. Foundations of Language, 10(2), 317-328.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1969). Echte en onechte taalkunde. De Gids, 132, 225-242.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1969). [Review of the book Writing transformational grammars by Andreas Koutsoudas]. Journal of Linguistics, 5(1), 188-189. doi:10.1017/S0022226700002188.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1969). Generatieve grammatika en semantiek. In Handelingen van het XXVII Vlaams Filologencongres (pp. 276-282).
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1969). Il concetto di regola grammaticale. In La sintassi: atti del 3 Convegno internazionale di studi, Roma, 17-18 maggio 1969 (pp. 125-141). Rome: Bulzoni.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1969). La G.G.T. et la théorie de la traduction. Le Langage et l'Homme, 10, 41-50.
  • Seuren, P. A. M. (1969). Operators and nucleus: A contribution to the theory of grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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