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Semantics. From meaning to text. Volume 3 / Igor A. Mel'čuk ; edited by David Beck, Alain Polguère.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič), 1932- author.
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; Volume 168.
- Studies in Language Companion Ser. 168
- Studies in Language Companion Series ; Volume 168
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Meaning (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (566 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts. Semantics is specifically 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 the terms of Meaning-Text linguistics, the present volume closes the publication of the three volume series. It discusses in detail several linguistic notions crucial to the development of Meaning-Text models of natural languages: semantic and syntactic actants, government pattern, lexical functions, linguistic connotations, phrasemes, the meaning of grammatical cases, and linguistic dependencies. The notions under analysis are illustrated from a variety of languages. Reflecting the author’s life-long dedication to the study of the semantics and syntax of natural language, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the language sciences, whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Author’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Notations
- Part V Linguistic Excursuses
- Introduction
- Chapter 12. Actants
- Chapter 13. Government Pattern
- Chapter 14. Lexical Functions
- Chapter 15. Lexical Connotation
- Chapter 16. Phrasemes
- Chapter 17. Do Nominal Cases Have Meaning?
- Chapter 18. Dependency in Language
- Concluding Remarks
- General Acknowledgments
- References
- Index of Terms, Names and Concepts
- Index of Linguistic Items
- Language Index
- Definition Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 9, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9789027268969
- 9027268967
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