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FORTUIN, E. and GEERDINK-VERKOREN, H., Universal Semantic Syntax: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 206p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 160. Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its primary starting point the idea that syntax deals with the relations between meanings expressed by form-meaning elements and that the same types of relations can be found cross-linguistically. The theory provides a way to formalize the syntactic relations between meanings so that each fragment of grammar can be analyzed in a clear-cut way. A comprehensive introduction into the theoretical concepts of the theory is provided, with analyzes of numerous examples in English and various other languages, European and non-European, to illustrate the concepts. The theory discussed will enable linguists to look for similarities between languages, while at the same time acknowledging important language specific features. (Publisher's information). € 114.09 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9781108476805