TY - BOOK AU - Borsley,Robert D. ED - Emerald eBooks. TI - The nature and function of syntactic categories T2 - Syntax and semantics, SN - 9781849500098 (electronic bk.) : AV - P1 .S9 vol. 32 U1 - 415 22 PY - 2000/// CY - San Diego, CA PB - Academic Press KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Syntax KW - Grammatical categories KW - Grammar, syntax KW - bicssc KW - Semantics KW - Language Arts & Disciplines KW - Grammar & Punctuation KW - bisacsh KW - Linguistics KW - General KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks. It discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories and presents a number of theoretical frameworks UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0092-4563/32 ER -