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Semantics : from meaning to text / Igorʹ A. Melʹčuk ; edited by David Beck, Alain Polguère.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič), 1932-
Contributor:
Beck, David.
Polguère, Alain.
Series:
Studies in language companion series ; v. 129.
Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 129
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Meaning (Psychology).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (458 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Summary:
This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct transition from a Semantic Representation of the Meaning of a family of synonymous sentences to the Deep Syntactic Representation of a particular sentence. Framed in the terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, this volume discusses in detail the problems of Semantic Representation -including the semantic struc
Contents:
pt. 1. Meaning-text approach and meaning-text models
pt. 2. Semantic representation in a meaning-text linguistic model.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
9786613653772
9781280676840
1280676841
9789027273437
902727343X
OCLC:
794328707

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