TY - GEN AU - Seuren,Pieter A.M. TI - A view of language SN - 0199244812 U1 - 415 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Oxford [England], New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - GRAMÁTICA COMPARADA Y GENERAL KW - LEMB KW - SEMÁNTICA KW - JEAM KW - DIALECTOLO N1 - Índice: p. [511]-517; Collection of 22 articles and parts of articles or books originally published 1972-1999, some originally in foreign languages which have been translated into English by the author for this publication; Tabla de contenido: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0612/2001024733-t.html; Bibliografía: P. [496]-510; Language, world, and cognitive processing -- Grammar as an underground process -- Autonomous versus semantic syntax -- Doing sums with language -- Internal variability in competence -- The paradoxes and natural language -- Predicate raising and dative in French and sundry languages -- Negative's travels -- Operator lowering -- A problem in English subject complementation -- Clitic pronoun clusters -- Presuppositions and the universe of interpretation -- Logical form and semantic form : an argument against Geach -- Lexical meaning and presupposition -- Presupposition and negation -- Why does 2 mean "2"? : grist to the anti-Grice mill -- Towards a discourse-semantic account of donkey anaphora -- A discourse-semantic account of topic and comment -- Semantic transperency as a factor in Creole genesis / with Herman Chr. Wekker -- Serial verb constructions -- Tense and aspect in Sranan -- The question of predicate clefting in the Indian Ocean creoles ER -