Semantics
From meaning to text. Volume 3
- Editor(s): David Beck 1 and Alain Polguère 2
- Author(s): Igor Mel’čuk 3
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Alberta2 Université de Lorraine, CNRS, ATILF3 University of Montreal
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date January 2015
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027268969
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.168
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.
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