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Autore: | Melčuk Igor |
Titolo: | Language : from meaning to text / / Igor Melčuk ; edited by David Beck |
Pubblicazione: | Moscow, Russia ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : LRC Publishing House : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
Disciplina: | 401.43 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences |
Meaning-text theory (Linguistics) | |
Language and languages | |
Persona (resp. second.): | BeckDavid |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Languages |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Language |
ISBN: | 1-61811-457-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813023803321 |
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