Semantics
From meaning to text
Volume 3
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
Published online on 20 January 2015
Published online on 20 January 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Author’s Foreword | pp. xv–15
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Acknowledgments | pp. xvi–16
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Abbreviations and Notations | pp. xvii–xx
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Part V Linguistic Excursuses
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Introduction | p. 3
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Actants | pp. 4–107
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Government Pattern: Government in the Lexicon | pp. 108–154
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Lexical Functions: Description of Lexical Relations in a Lexicon | pp. 155–279
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Lexical Connotation | pp. 280–292
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Phrasemes | pp. 293–362
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Do Nominal Cases Have Meaning? | pp. 363–386
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Dependency in Language | pp. 387–505
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Concluding Remarks | p. 506
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General Acknowledgments | p. 507
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References | pp. 508–531
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Index of Terms, Names and Concepts | pp. 532–537
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Index of Linguistic Items | pp. 538–541
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Language Index | pp. 542–544
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Definition Index | pp. 545–546
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General