Semantics
From meaning to text
Volume 3
Author
| University of Montreal
Editors
| University of Alberta
| Université de Lorraine, CNRS, ATILF
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.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 168] 2015. xx, 546 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Author’s Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations and Notations
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Part V Linguistic Excursuses
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Introduction
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Actants
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Government Pattern: Government in the Lexicon
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Lexical Functions: Description of Lexical Relations in a Lexicon
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Lexical Connotation
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Phrasemes
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Do Nominal Cases Have Meaning?
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Dependency in Language
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Concluding Remarks
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General Acknowledgments
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References
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Index of Terms, Names and Concepts
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Index of Linguistic Items
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Language Index
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Definition Index
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Subjects & Metadata
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General