Lexington Books
Pages: 196
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-1845-0 • Hardback • December 2007 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-1846-7 • Paperback • September 2015 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
Tista Bagchi is professor of linguistics at the University of Delhi.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Facts about the Sentence and the Clause
Chapter 3 The Sentence and the Clause in Syntax
Chapter 4 The Semantics of Sentences and Clauses
Chapter 5 The Sentence and the Clause in Context
Chapter 6 The Morphology and the Phonology of the Sentence and the Clause
Chapter 7 The Sentence in Computation and Cognition
Chapter 8 The Sentence and Issues in Referring
Chapter 9 The Sentence, Predication, and Causation
Chapter 10 Creative Writing and the Sentence
This is a hugely literate work of enormous scope. Bagchi defends the integrity and centrality of the notion of a sentence against contrary influences of all sorts?-from philosophy (including philosophy of language), from psychology, from figurative speech and thought, from ?irrational? uses of language in poetry and creative writing, from the study of schizophrenia, and even from a cetain line of thinking within linguistics itself. Philosophers in particular, beware: It is impossible on purely linguistic grounds that all sentences should express propositions; there are formidable challenges to semantic compositionality; the relation between sentencehood and word-world reference is vexed; and there is an important sense in which a sentence?s predicate is its semantic core.
— William G. Lycan, University of North Carolina