Igor Mel'cuk (Universite de Montreal), Jasmina Milicevic (Nova Scotia Dalhousie University)

An Advanced Introduction to Semantics

A Meaning-Text Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed primarily at graduate level students and researchers, this textbook presents a model of semantics that forms a central component of human language: it explains how people create sentences based on pre-constructed and formally represented meanings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781108723046
• ISBN-10: 1108723047
• Artikelnr.: 56712866

Autorenporträt

Igor Mel'¿uk is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Université de Montréal. One of the pioneers of Machine-Translation research, he launched, together with A. Zholkovsky, the Meaning-Text linguistic approach - a universal linguistic theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Fundamentals: 1. Semantics in language and linguistics
2. Some basic linguistic notions
Part II. Meaning in Language and Its Description: 3. Linguistic meaning
4. Lexical meaning, lexical items and lexical units
5. Lexicographic definition
6. Lexical relations
7. Lexical functions
8. The lexical stock of a language and the dictionary
9. Sentential meaning and meaning relations between sentences
Part III. Meaning-Text Model of Semantics: 10. Semantic representation
11. Deep-syntactic representation
12. Semantic rules
Concluding remarks
Appendix: some mathematical and logical notions useful to linguistics
Exercises
References
Notion and term index cum glossary
Definition index
Language index
Lexical unit and semanteme index.