
Semantics
From meaning to text. Volume 2
Igor Mel'cuk(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 9. July 2013
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-90-272-0602-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0602-2 (9789027206022)
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08/2013
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Persons
Author
University of Montreal
Editor
University of Alberta
Universite de Lorraine, CNRS, ATILF
Content
1. Author's Foreword; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Abbreviations and Notations; 4. III Deep-Syntactic Representation in a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model; 5. Introduction to Part III; 6. 7 Deep-Syntactic Structure; 7. IV The Semantic Module of a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model; 8. Introduction: Architecture of the Sem-ModuleSemantic Module of a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model; 9. 8 Semantic Paraphrasing; 10. 9 Deep-Syntactic Paraphrasing; 11. 10 Semantic Transition; 12. 11 Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary [= ECD]; 13. References; 14. Index of Terms, Names & Concepts; 15. Index of Linguistic Items; 16. Language Index; 17. Definition Index