Semantics from meaning to text - Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A., (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič) (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
General Introduction: an informal characterization of meaning -text semantics -- I. Meaning-Text Approach and Meaning-Text Models: 1. Some basic linguistic notions; 2. Linguistic paraphrase; 3. Meaning-text theory and meaning-text linguistic models -- II. Semantic Representation in a Meaning-Text Model: 4. The semantic structure of utterances; 5. Semantemes of causation in natural language; 6. Semantic-communicative structure
This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct 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, this volume discusses in detail the problems of Semantic Representation --including the semantic struc