This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. Chapter 1 expounds the basic idea that underlies this approach--that a natural language must be described as a correspondence between linguistic m...

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1. Verfasser:	Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič), 1932-
Weitere Verfasser:	Beck, David, 1963-
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2016.
Schlagworte:	Meaning-text theory (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences. Language and languages. Language Théorie sens-texte (Linguistique) Phrase (Linguistique) Langage et langues. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General. Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences Language and languages Electronic book.
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Zusammenfassung:	This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. Chapter 1 expounds the basic idea that underlies this approach--that a natural language must be described as a correspondence between linguistic meanings and linguistic texts--and explains the organization of the book. Chapter 2 introduces the notion of linguistic functional model, the three postulates of the Meaning-Text approach (a language is a particular meaning-text correspondence, a language must be described by a functional model and linguistic utterances must be treated at the level of the sentence and that of the word) and the perspective "from meaning to text" for linguistic descriptions. Chapter 3 contains a characterization of a particular Meaning-Text model: formal linguistic representations on the semantic, the syntactic and the morphological levels and the modules of a linguistic model that link these representations. Chapter 4 covers two central problems of the Meaning-Text approach: semantic decomposition and restricted lexical cooccurrence (H"lexical functions); particular attention is paid to the correlation between semantic components in the definition of a lexical unit and the values of its lexical functions. Chapter 5 discusses five select issues: 1) the orientation of a linguistic description must be from meaning to text (using as data Spanish semivowels and Russian binominative constructions); 2) a system of notions and terms for linguistics (linguistic sign and the operation of linguistic union; notion of word; case, voice, and ergative construction); 3) formal description of meaning (strict semantic decomposition, standardization of semantemes, the adequacy of decomposition, the maximal block principle); 4) the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary (with a sample of complete lexical entries for Russian vocables); 5) dependencies in language, in particular--syntactic dependencies (the criteria for establishing a set of surface-syntactic relations for a language are formulated). Three appendices follow: a phonetic table, an inventory of surface-syntactic relations for English and an overview of all possible combinations of the three types of dependency (semantic, syntactic, and morphological). The book is supplied with a detailed index of notions and terms, which includes a linguistic glossary
Beschreibung:	Includes index.
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ISBN:	1618114573 9781618114570