Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 3: 168 (Studies in Language Companion Series) - Hardcover

Mel’čuk, Igor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902725933X ISBN 13: 9789027259332

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2015

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902725933X
• ISBN 13: 9789027259332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 566
• Editor: Beck David, Polguère Alain