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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789646203321

Titolo

Recent trends in meaning-text theory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Leo Wanner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997

ISBN

1-283-28035-3

9786613280350

90-272-8192-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 39

Altri autori (Persone)

WannerLeo

Disciplina

410/.43

Soggetti

Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general

Meaning-text theory (Linguistics)

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

CONTENTS; Preface; Meaning-Text Semantic Networks as a Formal Language; Towards a Notional Representation of Meaning in the Meaning-Text Model: The Case of the French SI; Verb Categorization and the Format of a Lexicographic Definition(Semantic Types of Causative Relations); Semantic Communicative Structure of Verbal vs.Conjunctive Causative Expressions (to kill/to cause to die vs. to die because P); Theme, Rheme, and Communicative Structure in Lushootseed and Bella Coola; Scope of Generic Noun Phrases and Its Correlation with the Verb Meaning in Russian

Valency and Underlying Structure: An Alternative View on Dependency A Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase-Structure Grammars, with Special Consideration of Word-Order Phenomena; Subject Index; Name Index

Sommario/riassunto

The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories.Founded by I. Mel'cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a "prominent outsider" theory. The picture changed since then, though. MTT gained importance in several areas of linguistics and computational linguistics. It influenced the



design of new grammar formalisms such as Dependency Tree Grammars. Also, specific parts of MTT have been directly overtaken into other theories; consider, for example, the work on