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.
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.