04677nam 2200577 450 991046513230332120210430004623.01-61811-457-310.1515/9781618114570(CKB)3710000000666747(EBL)4556924(MiAaPQ)EBC4556924(DE-B1597)541104(OCoLC)949990415(DE-B1597)9781618114570(Au-PeEL)EBL4556924(CaPaEBR)ebr11223122(CaONFJC)MIL921982(EXLCZ)99371000000066674720160707h20162016 uy 0engur|nu---|u||urdacontentrdamediardacarrierLanguage from meaning to text /Igor Melčuk ; edited by David BeckMoscow, Russia ;Boston, Massachusetts :LRC Publishing House :Academic Studies Press,2016.©20161 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61811-456-5 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --The Author's Foreword --Chapter 1. The Problem Stated --Chapter 2. Functional Modeling in Linguistics --Chapter 3. An Outline of a Particular Meaning-Text Model --Chapter 4. Modeling Two Central Linguistic Phenomena: Lexical Selection and Lexical Cooccurrence --Chapter 5. Meaning-Text Linguistics --Summing Up --Appendices --Notes --References --Abbreviations and Notations --Subject and Name Index with a Glossary --Index of LanguagesThis 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 (≈ 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.Grammar, Comparative and generalSentencesMeaning-text theory (Linguistics)Language and languagesElectronic books.Grammar, Comparative and generalSentences.Meaning-text theory (Linguistics)Language and languages.401.43Melčuk Igor724741Beck DavidMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465132303321Language2483424UNINA