{"product_id":"9781108476805","title":"Universal Semantic Syntax: A Semiotactic Approach","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":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46322222760177,"sku":"9781108476805","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781108476805_p0.jpg?v=1765142128","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781108476805","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}