Semantics of Spanish Verbal Categories

Ian E. Mackenzie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

1999
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
978-3-906762-65-4 (ISBN)

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This book provides a detailed analysis of how the Spanish verbal paradigms - preterite, imperfect, subjunctive, etc. - contribute to the meaning of sentences. The study integrates several years of practical language teaching with theoretical results from linguistics and the philosophy of language. The exposition is lucid and scholarly, although a formal treatment is generally avoided. Elusive distinctions are teased out, such as the contrast between dispositional and habitual sentences or between the notional and relational senses of a psychological verb, but always with a light touch. Semantics of Spanish Verbal Categories will be of interest to students of Spanish and to linguists in general.

The Author: Ian Mackenzie is currently a lecturer in the School of Modern Languages of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and his doctoral dissertation - on which this book is partly based - was supervised by John Lyons. His research interests are diverse, ranging from Spanish and Latin American linguistics to the philosophy of language. He published his first book in 1997, entitled Introduction to Linguistic Philosophy.

Contents: Aspectual class - agentivity - interval semantics - count - mass distinction - relational versus notional constructions - conditional sentences - referential and attributive descriptions - quantification and quantificational contexts - temporal descriptions - complement clauses - relative clauses.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.1999
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Analysis • categories • Hardcover, Softcover / Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • language • Mackenzie • Meaning • Semantics • Spanish • Verbal
ISBN-10	3-906762-65-3 / 3906762653
ISBN-13	978-3-906762-65-4 / 9783906762654
Zustand	Neuware