How Long to Read A View of Language

How Long Does it Take to Read A View of Language?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 16 minutes to read A View of Language by Pieter A. M. Seuren

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book collects the best and most influential essays of one of the world's most original linguistic scholars and thinkers. They show Pieter Seuren's remarkable erudition from classical antiquity to current theory, his descriptive and theoretical sophistication, and his beautiful clarity ofstyle. They provide many examples of the cogency of his argument and his willingness to speak out trenchantly against accepted wisdom.In the extensive introduction the author describes the evolution of his theoretical position and its development in relation to Chomskyan syntactic theory and model-theoretic semantics. He argues here and throughout the book that grammar and semantics should be studied as branches of cognitivescience, not as mere formalisms. He propounds, develops, and applies a theory of semantic syntax in which a grammar is seen as a mediating device between propositionally structured thoughts and corresponding surface structures. He rejects conventional notions of autonomous grammar as unsustainableand, in a realist theory of language, unnecessary. He demonstrates that his semantic theory achieves empirically adequate and formally precise explanatory generalizations, developing a theory of discourse semantics as a means of providing elegant accounts of topic-comment structure.The twenty-two essays are divided into four parts dealing broadly with general theory, syntax, semantics, and the linguistics of creole languages. Many of the author's classic papers will be found here, including those on autonomous versus semantic syntax, predicate raising and datives, cliticpronoun clusters, donkey anaphora ('every man who owns a donkey beats it'), serial verb constructions, and many more. Provocative and thoughtful, accessible and entertaining, they add up to a book of real, enduring value.

How long is A View of Language?

A View of Language by Pieter A. M. Seuren is 552 pages long, and a total of 139,104 words.

This makes it 186% the length of the average book. It also has 170% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A View of Language Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 40 minutes to read A View of Language aloud.

What Reading Level is A View of Language?

A View of Language is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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