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Recent trends in meaning-text theory / edited by Leo Wanner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 39.
- Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Meaning-text theory (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories.Founded by I. Mel'cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a "prominent outsider" theory. The picture changed since then, though. MTT gained importance in several areas of linguistics and computational linguistics. It influenced the design of new grammar formalisms such as Dependency Tree Grammars. Also, specific parts of MTT have been directly overtaken into other theories; consider, for example, the work on
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Preface; Meaning-Text Semantic Networks as a Formal Language; Towards a Notional Representation of Meaning in the Meaning-Text Model: The Case of the French SI; Verb Categorization and the Format of a Lexicographic Definition(Semantic Types of Causative Relations); Semantic Communicative Structure of Verbal vs.Conjunctive Causative Expressions (to kill/to cause to die vs. to die because P); Theme, Rheme, and Communicative Structure in Lushootseed and Bella Coola; Scope of Generic Noun Phrases and Its Correlation with the Verb Meaning in Russian
- Valency and Underlying Structure: An Alternative View on Dependency A Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase-Structure Grammars, with Special Consideration of Word-Order Phenomena; Subject Index; Name Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-28035-3
- 9786613280350
- 90-272-8192-0
- OCLC:
- 748242124
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