Contrasting English and German grammar
Subtitle: an introduction to syntax and semantics
By: Sigrid Beck, Remus Gergel
Contributors: Gergel, Remus, 1974- author
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9783110300055; 9783110346190
Subjects: English language; Comparative Grammar; German; German language; English; Comparative and general Grammar; Syntax; Comparative Semantics
Description: "This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilitate an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory."--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-311), appendix, and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Structure and meaning: an introduction to syntax and semantics; title: Introduction to the field: syntax and semantics; title: Categories, phrases and phrase structure rules; title: A systematic way of constructing phrases; title: Clause structure and movement; title: Goals and methods in semantics; title: Composing sentence meanings-first steps; title: Extending the theory; title: NP semantics; title: Appendix: syntactic and semantic rules for Part 1; title: Part 2. Extending the theory and applying it to crosslinguistic differences; title: Introduction and roadmap to the second part; title: Clause sturcture-English and German; title: Quantifiers  and scope; title: Negation and polarity; title: Focus; title: Ellipsis; title: Tense and aspect; title: Conclusions.