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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451964203321

Autore

Melʹčuk Igorʹ A (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič), <1932->

Titolo

Semantics [[electronic resource] ] : from meaning to text / / Igorʹ A. Melʹčuk ; edited by David Beck, Alain Polguère

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

1-280-67684-1

9786613653772

90-272-7343-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 129

Altri autori (Persone)

BeckDavid

PolguèreAlain

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences

Meaning (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Meaning-text approach and meaning-text models -- pt. 2. Semantic representation in a meaning-text linguistic model.

Sommario/riassunto

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