Semantics

Name: Semantics | From meaning to text. Volume 1
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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From meaning to text. Volume 1

Igor Mel'cuk(Autor*in)

David Beck Alain Polguère(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 6. Juni 2012

XXI, 436 Seiten

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Semantics
Editorial page
Title page
LCC Data
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Notations
Organization of Semantics: From Meaning to Text
General Introduction
1 Preliminary Remarks
2 The Boundaries of Meaning-Text Semantics
2.1 What is Excluded from Linguistic Semantics in SMT
2.2 What is Studied by Linguistic Semantics in SMT
3 A Short History and the Present State of Meaning-Text Semantics
4 The Structure of the Book
Notes
Part I. Meaning-Text Approach and Meaning-Text Models
1. Some Basic Linguistic Notions
Notes
2. Linguistic Paraphrase
1 The Notion of Linguistic Paraphrase
2 Characterization of Paraphrases
2.1 The Central Place of Paraphrase in Language and Linguistics
2.2 Mutual Substitutability of Paraphrases in Text
2.3 Linguistic Meaning vs. the Informational Content of Paraphrases
2.4 Exactness of Paraphrases
2.5 Quasi-linguistic Paraphrases
2.6 Typology of Paraphrases
3 An Illustration: Paraphrases of an English Sentence
4 Semantic Neutralization as a Condition for Paraphrasing
4.1 Linguistic Neutralization: General Remarks
4.2 Phonological and Morphological Neutralization
4.3 Notion of Semantic Neutralization
4.4 Two Phenomena Similar to, but Different from, Semantic Neutralization
Notes
3. Meaning-Text Theory and Meaning-Text Linguistic Models
1 The Basic Tenet of Meaning-Text Theory
2 The Three Postulates of Meaning-Text Theory
2.1 Postulate 1 of MTT: Language as a Meaning-Text Correspondence
2.2 Postulate 2 of MTT: Linguistic Description as a Functional Model
2.3 Postulate 3 of MTT: Multiple Levels of Linguistic Representation
3 The Meaning-Text Linguistic Model
3.1 The Major Modules of an MTM and the Corresponding Linguistic Representations
3.2 The Main Properties of the MTM
3.3 Reasons for the Synthetic Orientation of the MTM
3.4 Meaning-Text Models within the General Model of Human Linguistic Behavior
Bibliographical Remarks
Notes
Part II. Semantic Representation in a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model
4. The Semantic Structure of Utterances
1 General Characterization of the Semantic Structure
1.1 Substantive Characterization of the Semantic Structure
1.2 Formal Characterization of Semantic Structures
2 Labels on the Nodes of a Semantic Structure: Semantemes
2.1 Substantive Properties of Semantemes
2.2 Formal Properties of Semantemes
3 Labels on the Arcs of a Semantic Structure: Against Semantic Roles
3.1 Non-homogeneity of the SemS that Uses Sem-roles
3.2 Infinite Regression Provoked by Sem-roles
3.3 Openness of the List of Sem-roles
3.4 Inadequacy of Sem-roles
4 Specific Conventions Used in Semantic Structures
4.1 The Presentation of Grammemes in the SemS
4.2 Coordination in the SemS
4.3 Operator Semantemes
4.4 Questions and Exclamations (Speech Acts)
4.5 Some Allowable Parallel Semantic Expressions
5 A Sample Semantic Structure
6 Semantic Structure in Meaning-Text Correspondence
7 The Formal Language of Semantic Structure
7.1 The Notion of Formal Language
7.2 The Semantic Formal Language of MTT
Bibliographical Remarks
Notes
5. Semantemes of Causation in Natural Language
1 Causation in Natural Language
2 The Semanteme 'cause1' [= 'be the cause of']
2.1 Introductory Remarks
2.2 The Semanteme 'actI.1'
2.3 The Semanteme 'entail'
2.4 The Decompositions of 'cause1'
3 The Semanteme 'cause2' (= 'be the causer of')
4 Causative Verbs and Verbs of Causation
4.1 Causative Verbs
4.2 Verbs of Causation
Bibliographical Remarks
Notes
6. Semantic-Communicative Structure
1 General Characterization of the Semantic-Communicative Structure
1.1 The Target of the Sem-CommS
1.2 The Means of the Sem-CommS
1.3 The Sem-CommS vs. the SemS
1.4 Formal Properties of the Sem-CommS
2 Semantic-Communicative Dominance
2.1 The Notion of Communicative Dominance
2.2 The Role of Comm-Dominance in the Meaning-Text Transition
3 Semantic-Communicative Oppositions
3.1 General Overview of Sem-Comm-Oppositions
3.2 Thematicity
3.3 Givenness
3.4 Focalization
3.5 Perspective
3.6 Emphasis
3.7 Assertivity
3.8 Unitariness
3.9 Locutionality
4 Pairing of SemSs with Sem-CommSs
4.1 Well-formedness of Sem-CommS
4.2 Communicatively Sensitive Semantemes
4.3 Communicatively Sensitive Configurations of Semantemes
Bibliographical Remarks
Notes
References
Index of Terms, Names & Concepts
Index of Linguistic Items
Language Index

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