Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory

• Preface
  Leo Wanner | p. xi
• Meaning-Text Semantic Networks as a Formal Language
  Alain Polguère | 
• 1 Semantic Networks: One of the Languages of Linguistics | p. 1
• 2 Definition of Nine Basic Semantic Concepts | p. 3
• 2.1 General Presentation of the Taxonomy of Linguistic 1 Meanings
• 2.2 The Key Concept of MEANING
• 2.3 Concepts Belonging to the Specification of the Semantic Structure of MT-Networks
• 2.4 The case of PRESUPPOSITION: A Concept Belonging to the Specification of the Communicative Structure of MT-Networks
• 3 Specification of the Formal Language of MT-Networks | p. 15
• 4 Conclusion | p. 20
• Towards a Notional Representation of Meaning in the Meaning-Text Model: The Case of the French SI
  Marie-Christine Escalier and Corinne Fournier | 
• 1 Introduction | p. 25
• 2 Types of Paraphrases and Expression of Causality | p. 26
• 3 The Information in the ECD | p. 28
• 4 The Relation of Causality and Description of Fr.SIconj in the ECD | p. 29
• 4.1 Is SI a Logical Connective?
• 4.2 Nature of the Definition Zone in Lexical Entries
• 4.3 Analysis of SI: Nine Different Lexemes
• 4.4 Description of SI 1 in the extended ECD
• 5 Notions and the Notional Dictionary | p. 48
• 5.1 Some Characteristics of Notions
• 5.2 Theoretical Status of Notions
• 5.3 Advantages of the Notional Representation
• 5.4 Relations between a Notional Dictionary and the ECD
• 5.5 Notional Representation of the Meaning of Sentences
• Verb Categorization and the Format of a Lexicographic Definition (Semantic Types of Causative Relations)
  Elena V. Paducheva | 
• 1 Introduction | p. 61
• 2 Non-intentional (Non-controlled) Causation | p. 64
• 3 Intentional (Controlled) Causation | p. 68
• 4 Partial Control | p. 69
• 5 Guaranteed Causation | p. 70
• 6 Conclusion | p. 72
• Semantic Communicative Structure of Verbal vs. Conjunctive Causative Expressions ([to] kill/[to] cause to die vs. [to] die because P)
  Jean St.-Germain | 
• 1 Introduction | p. 75
• 2 Verbal vs. Conjunctive Causative Expressions: Specification, Thematization and Focalization | p. 79
• 2.1 Specification
• 2.2 Thematization
• 2.3 Focalization
• 3 Lexical vs. Syntactic Verbal Causative Expressions: Unitarization | p. 87
• 4 Conclusion | p. 89
• Theme, Rheme, and Communicative Structure in Lushootseed and Bella Coola
  David Beck | 
• 1 Introduction | p. 93
• 2 Subject and Predicate | p. 94
• 2.1 The Canonical Clause
• 2.2 Verbless Sentences
• 3 Theme, Rheme, and Syntactic Structure | p. 103
• 3.1 Wh-Questions
• 3.2 The Lushootseed Existential Negative
• 4 The Communicative Structure of the Verbless Sentence | p. 108
• 4.1 The Syntactic and Semantic Representation of Deixis
• 4.2 Sem-Theme, Sem-Rheme, and the DSyntR
• 5 Conclusion: Towards a Communicative Typology of Language | p. 129
• Scope of Generic Noun Phrases and Its Correlation with the Verb Meaning in Russian
  Igor M. Boguslavsky | 
• 1 Introduction | p. 137
• 2 Predicates of Change and Conservation of State and the Problem of Coreferentiality | p. 138
• 3 Coreferentiality of Generic Noun Phrases | p. 140
• 4 Scope of the Genericity Quantifier | p. 143
• 5 Conclusion: Lexicographic Implications | p. 147
• Valency and Underlying Structure: An Alternative View on Dependency
  Petr Sgall | 
• 1 Introduction | p. 149
• 2 Dependency Syntax and Underlying Structure | p. 150
• 3 Topic-Focus Articulation | p. 154
• 4 Status of Underlying Structure | p. 157
• 5 Lexical and Grammatical Information | p. 160
• 6 Specification of Underlying Representations | p. 161
• A Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase-Structure Grammars, with Special Consideration of Word-Order Phenomena
  Owen Rambow and Aravind K. Joshi | 
• 1 Introduction | p. 167
• 2 Dependency, Phrase Structure and the Lexicon | p. 169
• 3 Formal Aspects of Word Order Variation | p. 177
• 3.1 Computational Properties of Dependency Grammars
• 3.2 Word Order Rules and Non-Projectivity
• 3.3 Embedded Wh- Words in English
• 3.4 Embedded Clauses in Dutch
• 3.5 Localizing Syntactic Rules
• 4 Conclusion | p. 187
• Subject Index | p. 191
• Name Index | p. 201

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