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Seuren, P. A. M. (2018). Semantic syntax (2nd rev. ed.). Leiden: Brill.
Abstract
This book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (2018). Saussure and Sechehaye: A study in the history of linguistics and the foundations of language. Leiden: Brill.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1993). Overpeinzingen bij negatie. Gramma/TTT, tijdschrift voor taalwetenschap, 2(2), 145-163.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1993). The question of predicate clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles. In F. Byrne, & D. Winford (
Eds. ), Focus and grammatical relations in Creole languages (pp. 53-64). Amsterdam: Benjamins. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (1993). Why does mean 2 mean "2"? Grist to the anti-Grice mill. In E. Hajičová (
Ed. ), Proceedings on the Conference on Functional Description of Language (pp. 225-235). Prague: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. -
Hoppenbrouwers, G., Seuren, P. A. M., & Weijters, A. (
Eds. ). (1985). Meaning and the lexicon. Dordrecht: Foris. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (1985). Discourse semantics. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1985). Predicate raising and semantic transparency in Mauritian Creole. In N. Boretzky, W. Enninger, & T. Stolz (
Eds. ), Akten des 2. Essener Kolloquiums über "Kreolsprachen und Sprachkontakte", 29-30 Nov. 1985 (pp. 203-229). Bochum: Brockmeyer.
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