Semantics: From Meaning to Text, Volume 1This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct 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, this volume discusses in detail the problems of Semantic Representation including the semantic structure of utterances, the semantics of Causation in English, and communicative, or information, structure. Based on 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. |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Part I MeaningText Approach and MeaningText Models | 17 |
1 Some Basic Linguistic Notions | 21 |
2 Linguistic Paraphrase | 45 |
3 MeaningText Theory and MeaningText Linguistic Models | 85 |
Part II Semantic Representation in a MeaningText Linguistic Model | 161 |
4 The Semantic Structure of Utterances | 167 |
5 Semantemes of Causation in Natural Language | 243 |
6 SemanticCommunicative Structure | 289 |
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actants Addressee adjective Apresjan argument causation cause2 caused characterized clause Comm-Dom-node communicative ConceptR configuration constructions context corresponding Deep-Syntactic definition denotes DSyntS elements English equivalent example expression extralinguistic fact Focalized Foregrounded formal formal language French function given grammatical grammemes indicated inflectional category instance Ivan John lexeme lexical units lexicographic linguistic meaning linguistic paraphrases linguistic semantics linguistic sign linked logical Lushootseed Mary Meaning-Text Meaning-Text Theory Mel'čuk module natural language node notion noun particular phonological phrase Polguère predicate present Presupposed prolepsis properties propositional meaning prosody referents relation representation represented role rules Russian Sem-Comm-oppositions Sem-CommS Sem-configuration Sem-R Sem-roles Sem-T SemA semanteme Semantic constraint semantic decomposition semantic network semantic neutralization Semantic Structure SemR SemS SemSs sense sentence Signaled signified situation speak Speaker specify speech SSynt-Subject SSyntS synonymous synonymy syntactic texts Thematicity transition Unitary utterance verb VPser Wierzbicka wordform words