Semantics
：From meaning to text. Volume 1
( Studies in Language Companion Series )
Publication subTitle ：From meaning to text. Volume 1
Publication series ： Studies in Language Companion Series
Author： Igor A. Mel’čuk David Beck Alain Polguère
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9789027273437
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027205964
Subject： H030 Semantics, Pragmatics
Language： ENG
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Description
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 structure of utterances, the semantics of Causation in English, and communicative, or information, structure. Based on the author’s life-long dedication to the study of the semantics and syntax of natural language, this book is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the language sciences whose originality and daring will make it essential reading for linguists, anthropologists, semioticians, and computational linguists.