{"product_id":"books-universal-semantic-syntax-by-egbert-fortuin","title":"Universal Semantic Syntax","description":"Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its primary starting point the idea that syntax deals with the relations between meanings expressed by form-meaning elements and that the same types of relations can be found cross-linguistically. The theory provides a way to formalize the syntactic relations between meanings so that each fragment of grammar can be analyzed in a clear-cut way. A comprehensive introduction into the theoretical concepts of the theory is provided, with analyzes of numerous examples in English and various other languages, European and non-European, to illustrate the concepts. The theory discussed will enable linguists to look for similarities between languages, while at the same time acknowledging important language specific features.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420156580113,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781108757836.jpg?v=1787575558","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-universal-semantic-syntax-by-egbert-fortuin","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}