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An advanced introduction to semantics : a meaning-text approach / Igor Mel'čuk and Jasmina Milićević.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK : Cambridge university press, 2020.Description: xxvi, 424 pSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Advanced introduction to semantics.DDC classification:
  • 401/.43 23
LOC classification:
  • P325 .M427 2020
Contents:
Semantics in language and linguistics -- Some basic linguistic notions -- Linguistic meaning -- Lexical meaning, lexical items and lexical units -- Lexicographic definition -- Lexical relations -- Lexical functions -- The lexical stock of a language and the dictionary -- Sentential meaning and meaning relations between sentences -- Semantic representation -- Deep-syntactic representation -- Semantic rules.
Summary: "An advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' theory - an approach that treats linguistic knowledge as a huge inventory of correspondences between thought and speech. Formally, semantics is viewed as an organized set of rules that connect a representation of meaning (Semantic Representation) to a representation of the sentence (Deep-Syntactic Representation)"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Semantics in language and linguistics -- Some basic linguistic notions -- Linguistic meaning -- Lexical meaning, lexical items and lexical units -- Lexicographic definition -- Lexical relations -- Lexical functions -- The lexical stock of a language and the dictionary -- Sentential meaning and meaning relations between sentences -- Semantic representation -- Deep-syntactic representation -- Semantic rules.

"An advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' theory - an approach that treats linguistic knowledge as a huge inventory of correspondences between thought and speech. Formally, semantics is viewed as an organized set of rules that connect a representation of meaning (Semantic Representation) to a representation of the sentence (Deep-Syntactic Representation)"--

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