基本説明
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.
Full 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.
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Abbreviations and Notations; 4. Organization of SMT; 5. General Introduction: An Informal Characterization of Meaning-Text Semantics; 6. I.Meaning-Text Approach and Meaning-Text Models; 7. 1 Some Basic Linguistic Notions; 8. 2 Linguistic Paraphrase; 9. 3 Meaning-Text Theory and Meaning-Text Linguistic Models; 10. II. Semantic Representation in a Meaning-Text Model; 11. 4 The Semantic Structure of Utterances; 12. 5 Semantemes of Causation in Natural Language; 13. 6 Semantic-Communicative Structure; 14. References; 15. Index of Terms, Names & Concepts; 16. Index of Linguistic Items; 17. Language Index
