General Phraseology: Theory and Practice
Igor Mel’čuk
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 36] 2023. xiv, 281 pp.
Igor Mel’čuk
List of John Benjamins publications for which Igor Mel’čuk plays a role.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 3
Igor Mel’čuk
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 168] 2015. xx, 546 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 2
Igor Mel’čuk
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 135] 2013. xvi, 400 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 1
Igor Mel’čuk
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 129] 2012. xxi, 436 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Dependency in Linguistic Description
Edited by Alain Polguère and Igor Mel’čuk
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 111] 2009. xxii, 281 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Communicative Organization in Natural Language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences
Igor Mel’čuk
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 57] 2001. xii, 393 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Natural language processing | Pragmatics | Semantics
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 3
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
[Not in series, DECFC 3] 1992. 325 pp.
Subjects Dictionaries | Romance linguistics
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 2
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
[Not in series, DECFC 2] 1988. 344 pp.
Subjects Dictionaries | Romance linguistics
Surface Syntax of English: A formal model within the meaning-text framework
Igor Mel’čuk and Nikolaj V. Pertsov
[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 13] 1986. xv, 526 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain: Recherches lexico-sémantiques. Volume 1
Compiled by Igor Mel’čuk
[Not in series, DECFC 1] 1984. 172 pp.
Subjects Dictionaries | Romance linguistics
2024 A new type of linguistic sign: metasemy2 Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
A new type of morphological expressive linguistic means and the corresponding linguistic sign are described: metasemy1
— an expressive linguistic means that is an operation on the signified of the target lexeme; and metasemy2
— a sign whose signifier is a metasemy1. Thus, the English… read more
2021 Minimodel of semantic synthesis of Russian sentences Lingvisticæ Investigationes 44:1, pp. 101–136 | Article
A formal linguistitic model is presented, which produces, for a given conceptual representation of an extralinguistic situation, a corresponding semantic representation [SemR] that, in its turn, underlies the deep-syntactic representations of four near-synonymous Russian sentences expressing the… read more
2018 Les prépositions zéro en français Lingvisticæ Investigationes 41:2, pp. 269–283 | Article
Deux prépositions zéro sont postulées pour le français : les lexèmes Ø.LOC(prépos) (On s’est vu Ø.LOC(prépos) rue de Rivoli.) et Ø.TEMP(prépos) (On s’est vu Ø.TEMP(prépos) jeudi.) L’article propose une brève discussion des signes zéro dans les langues du monde et une justification pour… read more
2014 Dependency in Language Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures, Gerdes, Kim, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article
This paper presents a general overview of the notion of linguistic dependency and of its application in formal modeling of Language. Three major types of dependency are distinguished: semantic, syntactic and morphological dependencies; all cases of their 14 possible combinations in a sentence are… read more
2013 The notion of inflection and the expression of nominal gender in Spanish Studies in Language 37:4, pp. 736–763 | Article
The paper discusses the morphological status and the function of Spanish nominal endings -o and -a (ciel+o ‘sky’ vs. caj+a ‘box’); it is shown that both endings, plus the endings -e and -Ø, are inflectional suffixes that mark, however, not the values of an inflectional category (like nominal number… read more
2009 Establishing an inventory of surface-syntactic relations: Valence-controlled surface-syntactic dependents of the verb in French Dependency in Linguistic Description, Polguère, Alain and Igor Mel’čuk (eds.), pp. 151–234 | Article
2009 Dependency in natural language Dependency in Linguistic Description, Polguère, Alain and Igor Mel’čuk (eds.), pp. 1–110 | Article
2009 Foreword Dependency in Linguistic Description, Polguère, Alain and Igor Mel’čuk (eds.), pp. xiii–xxii | Foreword
2005 Verbes supports sans peine Verbes supports: Nouvel état des lieux, Gross, Gaston et Sophie de Pontonx (dir.), pp. 203–217 | Article
The paper is aimed at defining the concepts needed in the discussion of so-called ‘support (≈ light) verbs’ and presenting a way of describing them in the lexicon in terms of Lexical Functions [= LFs]. It develops the following six points :
1. A genuine support verb is semantically empty (or… read more
2002 19. Towards a formal concept ‘zero linguistic sign’: Applications in typology Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 241–258 | Chapter
2000 Machine translation and formal linguistics in the USSR Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers, Hutchins, John W. (ed.), pp. 205–226 | Article
1996 Lexical Functions: A Tool for the Description of Lexical Relations in a Lexicon Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing, Wanner, Leo (ed.), pp. 37–36 | Section header
1996 Lexical Functions and Lexical Inheritance for Emotion Lexemes in German Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing, Wanner, Leo (ed.), pp. 209–208 | Section header
1995 Traitement lexicographique de deux connecteurs textuels du français contemporain: en fait vs. en réalité. Tendances Récentes en Linguistique Française et Générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Lucien Kupferman (dir.), pp. 211–236 | Article
1994 Suppletion: Toward a Logical Analysis of the Concept Studies in Language 18:2, pp. 339–410 | Article
A rigorous definition of 'suppletion' is proposed, based on prototypical cases and the following pivotal idea of the current notion: two linguistic signs are in relation of suppletion if the semantic difference between them is maximally regular (i.e., it is grammatical inflectional or derivational)… read more
1993 The inflectional category of voice: towards a more rigorous definition Causatives and Transitivity, Comrie, Bernard and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 1–46 | Article
1993 Agreement, Government, Congruence Lingvisticæ Investigationes 17:2, pp. 307–373 | Miscellaneous
Rigorous definitions are proposed for three important syntactic-morphological concepts: agreement, government and congruence. They are defined as particular cases of morphological dependency between wordforms of an utterance (distinguished from semantic and syntactic dependencies between… read more
1992 Toward a Logical Analysis of the Notion 'Ergative Construction' Studies in Language 16:1, pp. 91–138 | Article
1991 Toward a universal calculus of inflectional categories: on Roman Jakobson’s Trail New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, Waugh, Linda R. and Stephen Rudy (eds.), pp. 85–109 | Article
1984 Toward the Lexicographic Description of the Cooccurrence of "Parametric" Lexemes in French and Russian: Numerical Value Actants and Degree Modifiers Lingvisticæ Investigationes 8:2, pp. 269–284 | Article
Leo Elnitsky et Igor A. Mel'cuk: Description lexicographique de la cooccurrence de lexemes parametriques en francais et en russe: actant de valeur numerique vs. attribut de degree. On introduit d'abord deux traits importants du Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire (D.E.C.): 1) exigence de… read more