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Book SynopsisThis book traces from antiquity to the present the concept of the sentence as a fundamental unit of human language and cognition and situates it in different languages and linguistic and philosophical theories.
Trade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsChapter 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
