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Català --- Català. --- Gramàtica comparada i general. --- Gramàtica.

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Generative grammar --- Generative grammar. --- Gramática comparada y general --- Gramática comparada y general. --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Sintaxis.

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Català --- Català. --- Gramàtica comparada i general. --- Retòrica --- S. XV. --- Versificació. --- Gramàtica --- Obres anteriors a 1800.

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This volume presents two works elaborating a general theory of words and their structure written by René de Saussure, younger brother of Ferdinand de Saussure. Although originating in René de Saussure's concerns for the structure of Esperanto, these essays are clearly intended to articulate a general account of word formation in natural language. They appear here in the French original with facing English translations, accompanied by some remarks on René de Saussure's life and followed by essays on the Esperantist background of his analysis (by Marc van Oostendorp), the contemporary relevance of his morphological theory (by Stephen Anderson), and the semantic theory of words underlying his analysis (by Louis de Saussure). These two works have remained essentially unknown to the community of scholars in general linguistics since their publication in 1911 and 1919, respectively, although Esperantists have been aware of them. They develop in quite explicit form a theory of what would later be called morphemic analysis, based primarily on data from French (with some material from German and English, as well as occasional examples from other Indo-European languages). In its fundamental aspect, René's view of word formation differed significantly from that of his brother, who saw the structure of complex words as revealed not through their decomposition into smaller "atomic" units but rather in the relations between words, relations which could be presented in analogical form and which anticipate rule-based theories of morphological structure. The contrast between the two brothers' views thus anticipates basic issues in current theorizing about word structure.

Gramática comparada --- Saussure, René de --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Word formation. --- Saussure, René de, --- Derivational morphology --- Word formation --- Derivation --- Morphology --- De Saussure, René, --- Antido, --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way of combining elementary semantic units at the bottom of phrase structure up to and including the top of a sentence. Rejecting ternary tense as blocking compositionality, it introduces three levels obtained by binary tense oppositions. It also counters an outdated view on motion by assuming that change is not expressed as having an inherent goal but rather as dynamic interaction between different number systems that allows us to package information into countable and continuous units. It formally identifies the central role of a verb in a variety of argument structures and integrates adverbial modifiers into the compositional structure at different tense levels of phrase structure. This unique contribution to the field will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the syntax-semantics interface.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Tense (Grammar) --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Tense --- Mood --- Aspect --- Temporal constructions --- Verbal aspect --- Verb --- Tense. --- Mood. --- Aspect. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Gramàtica comparada --- Semàntica