Semantics : From meaning to text. Volume 3 PDF

by Mel'cuk Igor Mel'cuk

Edited by Beck David Beck, Polguere Alain Polguere

Part of the Studies in Language Companion Series series

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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.