An Advanced Introduction to Semantics
A Meaning-Text Approach
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- Authors:
- Igor Mel'čuk, Université de Montréal
- Jasmina Milićević, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
- Date Published: April 2020
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108481625
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This book is 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). The approach is particularly interesting for computer assisted language learning, natural language processing and computational lexicography, as our linguistic rules easily lend themselves to formalization and computer applications. The model combines abstract theoretical constructions with numerous linguistic descriptions, as well as multiple practice exercises that provide a solid hands-on approach to learning how to describe natural language semantics.
Read more- Abstract theoretical constructions are combined with specific linguistic descriptions to provide a hands-on approach to learning
- Contains numerous exercises that enable the reader to get a solid grasp of the semantic model presented
- An answer key to the exercises is provided online for the reader to check their solutions
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'A practical and comprehensive approach to the description and analysis of linguistic meaning bridging the narrow interests of traditional formal theories and the looser approaches to semantic representation favoured by usage-based and typologically oriented researchers. The authors systematically introduce a rigorous and intuitively accessible approach to the representation of the meaning of words and sentences that is urgently needed by linguists interested in the description of language, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and computational linguists in search of formalizable tools for the modelling of the semantics of natural language.' David Beck, University of Alberta
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108481625
- length: 450 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 157 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.75kg
- contains: 118 b/w illus. 26 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Part I. Fundamentals:
1. Semantics in language and linguistics
2. Some basic linguistic notions
Part II. Meaning in Language and Its Description:
3. Linguistic meaning
4. Lexical meaning, lexical items and lexical units
5. Lexicographic definition
6. Lexical relations
7. Lexical functions
8. The lexical stock of a language and the dictionary
9. Sentential meaning and meaning relations between sentences
Part III. Meaning-Text Model of Semantics:
10. Semantic representation
11. Deep-syntactic representation
12. Semantic rules
Concluding remarks
Appendix: some mathematical and logical notions useful to linguistics
Exercises
References
Notion and term index cum glossary
Definition index
Language index
Lexical unit and semanteme index.-
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