Semantics
From meaning to text
Volume 2
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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.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 135] 2013. xvi, 400 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Author's Foreword | p. xii
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Acknowledgments | p. xii
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Abbreviations and Notations | pp. xiii–xvi
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III Deep-Syntactic Representation in a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model
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Introduction to Part III | pp. 3–17
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7 Deep-Syntactic Structure | pp. 18–93
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IV The Semantic Module of a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model
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Introduction: Architecture of the Sem-ModuleSemantic Module of a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model | pp. 97–102
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8 Semantic Paraphrasing | pp. 103–136
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9 Deep-Syntactic Paraphrasing | pp. 137–197
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10 Semantic Transition | pp. 198–258
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11 Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary [= ECD] | pp. 259–376
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Index of Terms, Names & Concepts | pp. 389–394
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Index of Linguistic Items | pp. 395–397
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Language Index | pp. 398–399
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Definition Index | p. 400
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General