Semantics : from meaning to text / Igor A. Melcuk ; edited by David Beck, Alain Polguere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melcuk, Igor A. (Igor Aleksandrovic), 1932-

Contributor:

Beck, David.

Polguère, Alain, 1959-

Series:

Studies in Language Companion

Studies in language companion series ; v. 129, 135

Studies in Language Companion Series ; 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Meaning (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts). Semantics is that system of rules that ensures a 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 terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, this volume discusses the Deep-Syntactic Representation and the transition from Semantics to Deep-Syntax via Semantic paraphrasing (the equivalence amongst Semantic Representations), Deep-Syntactic paraphrasing (the equivalence amongst Deep-Syntactic Representations), and the passage between the two. A chapter is dedicated to the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary, a semantically based and co-occurrence-centered lexicon. Reflecting the author’s life-long dedication to semantics and syntax, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to language studies whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.

Contents:

""Semantics""; ""Editorial page""; ""Title page""; ""LCC data""; ""Contents""; ""Author�s Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations and Notations""; ""Printing conventions""; ""Part III. Deep-Syntactic Representation in a Meaning�Text Linguistic Model""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Deep-Syntactic Representation vs. Semantic Representation""; ""2 General Properties of the DSynt-Representation""; ""2.1 Dependency Relations in a Syntactic Representation""; ""2.2 Deep- vs. Surface-Structure Distinction""; ""2.3 Multistructural Character of the Syntactic Representation""

""3 Peripheral Structures of the DSynt-Representation""""3.1 Deep-Syntactic Communicative Structure""; ""3.2 Deep-Syntactic Prosodic Structure""; ""3.3 Deep-Syntactic Anaphoric Structure""; ""Comments""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 7. Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""1 General Characterization of the Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""1.1 Substantive Characterization of the DSyntS""; ""1.1.1 The Target of a DSyntS""; ""1.1.2 The Three Necessary Conditions a DSyntS Must Satisfy""; ""1.2 Formal Characterization of the DSyntS""

""2 Labels on the Nodes of a Deep-Syntactic Structure: Deep Lexical Units and Deep Grammemes""""2.1 Deep Lexical Units [= Deep LUs]""; ""2.1.1 The Stock of Deep LUs""; ""2.1.2 Potential Full LUs""; ""2.1.3 Deep Parts of Speech""; ""2.2 Deep Grammemes""; ""2.2.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""2.2.2 Mismatches between Deep and Surface Grammemes""; ""2.2.3 “Polysemy� of Deep Grammemes""; ""3 Labels on the Branches of a Deep-Syntactic Structure: Deep-Syntactic Relations""; ""3.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""3.2 An Overview of Deep-Syntactic Relations""

""3.2.1 Actantial DSynt-Relations: I, II, ..., VI, IIdir-sp""""3.2.2 Attributive DSynt-Relations: ATTR and ATTRdescr""; ""3.2.3 Appenditive DSynt-Relation: APPEND""; ""3.2.4 Coordinative DSynt-Relations: coord and quasi-coord""; ""3.3 Two Important Linguistic Properties of Deep-Syntactic Relations""; ""4 A Sample Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""Comments""; ""5 The Formal Language of the Deep-Syntactic Structure""; ""Notes""; ""Part IV. The Semantic Module of a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model""; ""Introduction""; ""1 General Remarks""; ""2 Limitations of the Description Proposed""

""2.1 Only Static (= Linguistic) Rules are Presented""""2.2 Only Sentences are Considered""; ""3 The Importance of Paraphrasing in the Sem-Module""; ""Chapter 8. Semantic Paraphrasing""; ""1 General Characterization of Semantic Paraphrasing""; ""1.1 The Concept of Semantic Equivalence""; ""1.2 Major Types of Semantic Equivalence""; ""2 Propositional Semantic Paraphrases""; ""2.1 Replacement Sem-Equivalence Rules""; ""2.1.1 Expansion/Reduction Replacement Rules""; ""2.1.2 Global Replacement Rules""; ""2.2 Addition/Subtraction Sem-Equivalence Rules""

""2.2.1 General Characterization of Addition/Subtraction Equivalences""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-420) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789027271655

9027271658

OCLC:

852849377