Naslov
Vzaimodejstvie sintaksisa, semantiki i pragmatiki v grammaticheskix sistemax: razvitie instrumentarija v XX veke.
(Capturing the interplay of syntax, semantics and pragmatics in grammatical systems: The development of the tools in the XXth century)

Autori
Van Valin, R.D., Jr.

Izvornik
Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriâ 9, Filologiâ (0130-0075) 5 (1996); 111-123

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, pregledni

Ključne riječi
syntactic and semantic representations; pragmatics; communicative functions

Sažetak
One of the primary tasks facing a grammatical theory is to capture the interaction of syntax, semantics and pragmatics in linguistic systems. This is essential if linguistic theory is to explain the communicative functions of grammatical structures in particular languages and across languages. The questions which must be answered include: what is the appropriate universally valid representation for syntactic structure?, what would be an adequate representation of crucial aspects of the semantics of propositions?, how can discourse-pragmatic information be represented in a grammatically relevant way, and, most important, how do these different representations interact with each other? In this paper answers to these questions will be given in terms of Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin 1993). The representation of syntactic structure is in terms of the RRG theory of the 'layered structure of the clause'. The semantic representation will be given in terms of an Aktionsart-based theory of lexical decomposition, and the representation of discourse-pragmatics is derived from Lambrecht's theory of focus structure. The mapping relations between the three representations will be explicated, and attention will be paid to cross-linguistic variation both in the representations themselves and in the mapping relations among them.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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