Background
Seuren, Pieter Albert Mary was born on July 9, 1934 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Son of Johannes and Catharina (Schavemaker) Seuren.
(Dr Seuren's study deals with the problem of presenting an...)
Dr Seuren's study deals with the problem of presenting an adequate model of grammatical description. The model he proposes conforms in its main outlines to the transformational generative grammar established by Chomsky, but differs in important respects. These mainly affect that part of Chomsky's syntactic component known as the 'base', which generates basic or 'deep' structures. In the model of the base proposed here two main constituents are distinguished for every deep structure representation of a sentence, vis-a-vis the operators and the nucleus. The deep structure of a sentence is thus seen to be very similar to the logical structure of a proposition. The arguments given in support of this analysis are based on mainly on considerations of simplicity and semantic adequacy.
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Seuren, Pieter Albert Mary was born on July 9, 1934 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Son of Johannes and Catharina (Schavemaker) Seuren.
Doctorandus, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 1969.
Lecturer linguistics Cambridge University, England, 1967-1970, Oxford University, England, 1970-1974. Professor philosophy of language Nijmegen University, The Netherlands, since 1974.
(Dr Seuren's study deals with the problem of presenting an...)
Member Linguistic Society of America, Linguistics Association Great British, Societas Linguistica Europea, Society Caribbean Linguistics.