A view of language
By: Pieter A.M. Seuren.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general.; Semantics.; Creole dialects.
Notes: Collection of 22 articles and parts of articles or books originally published 1972-1999, some originally in foreign languages which have been translated into English by the author for this publication.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-510) and index.
Table of contents: title: Language, world, and cognitive processing; title: Grammar as an underground process; title: Autonomous versus semantic syntax; title: Doing sums with language; title: Internal variability in competence; title: The paradoxes and natural language; title: Predicate raising and dative in French and sundry languages; title: Negative's travels; title: Operator lowering; title: A problem in English subject complementation; title: Clitic pronoun clusters; title: Presuppositions and the universe of interpretation; title: Logical form and semantic form : an argument against Geach; title: Lexical meaning and presupposition; title: Presupposition and negation; title: Why does 2 mean "2"? : grist to the anti-Grice mill; title: Towards a discourse-semantic account of donkey anaphora; title: A discourse-semantic account of topic and comment; title: Semantic transperency as a factor in Creole genesis / with Herman Chr. Wekker; title: Serial verb constructions; title: Tense and aspect in Sranan; title: The question of predicate clefting in the Indian Ocean creoles.