{"product_id":"9781108701587","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":"Egbert Fortuin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47810163343678,"sku":"9781108701587","price":1748.66,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781108701587_cf89af90-81be-4456-9b98-cbe289ff2c29.jpg?v=1707410441","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781108701587","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}