{"product_id":"language-from-meaning-to-text-9781618114563","title":"Language: From Meaning to Text","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eLanguage: From Meaning to Text\u003c\/i\u003e, Igor Mel’čuk offers a healthy concentration of text linguistics that covers core aspects of the study of natural languages, such as linguistic dependencies, semantics-syntax interface, lexical functions for paradigmatic and syntagmatic lexical relations, and the structure of explanatory combinatorial dictionaries. Theoretical considerations are systematically put to the test with a description of linguistic phenomena from a variety of typologically distinct languages. This gem of a book is the perfect entry into text linguistics for the curious mind who expects linguistic theories not to raise problems so much as to provide solutions.\" -- Alain Polguere, ATILF CNRS \u0026amp; Universite’ de Lorraine, Nancy (France)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Author’s Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 1. The Problem Stated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1.1 What is natural language and how to describe it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1.2 Illustrations of some basic notions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1.3 The structure of this book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1.4 Limitations accepted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 2. Functional Modeling in Linguistics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.1 A model as a means of study and description\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.2 Functional models\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.3 The Meaning-Text model: a global functional linguistic model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.3.1 Introductory remarks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.3.2 Three postulates of the Meaning-Text theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.3.3 Main formal properties of a Meaning-Text model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.3.4 Two central notions of the Meaning-Text approach: linguistic meaning and paraphrasing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2.3.5 General characterization of the Meaning-Text approach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 3. An Outline of a Particular Meaning-Text Model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.1 Deep and surface sublevels of linguistic representations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2 Linguistic representations in a Meaning-Text model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2.1 Introductory remarks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2.2 The semantic structure of a sentence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2.3 The deep-syntactic structure of a sentence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2.4 The surface-syntactic structure of a sentence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2.5 The deep-morphological structure of a sentence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2.6 The surface-morphological structure of a sentence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.2.7 Prelinguistic representation of the world: conceptual representation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3 The modules of the Meaning-Text model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.1 Introductory remarks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.2 Semantic module\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.2.1 Semantic paraphrasing: rules of the form “SemRi ≡ SemRj”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.2.2 Semantic transition: rules of the form “SemRi ⇔ DSyntRk”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.2.3 Deep-syntactic paraphrasing: rules of the form “DSyntRk1 ≡ DSyntRk2”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.3 Deep-syntactic module\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.4 Surface-syntactic module\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.5 Deep-morphological module\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3.3.6 Surface-morphological module\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 4. Modeling Two Central Linguistic Phenomena: Lexical Selection and Lexical Cooccurrence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4.1 Modeling lexical selection (paradigmatics): semantic decompositions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4.2 Modeling lexical cooccurrence (syntagmatics): lexical functions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4.3 Correlations between paradigmatic and syntagmatic aspects of lexeme behavior\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 5. Meaning-Text Linguistics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.1 Meaning-Text linguistics and the direction of linguistic description: from meaning to text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.1.1 Example 1: Spanish “semivowels”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.1.2 Example 2: Russian binominative sentences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.2 Meaning-Text linguistics and a linguistic conceptual apparatus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.2.1 Introductory remarks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.2.2 Linguistic sign\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.2.3 Word\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.2.4 Cases, ergative construction, voices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.3 Meaning-Text linguistics and the description of linguistic meaning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4 Meaning-Text linguistics and the lexicon: the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary [= ECD]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4.1 Introductory remarks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4.2 The three main properties of an ECD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4.3 A lexical entry in an ECD: three major zones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4.3.1 The semantic zone in an ECD lexical entry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4.3.2 The syntactic cooccurrence zone in an ECD lexical entry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4.3.3 The semantic derivation and lexical cooccurrence zone in an ECD lexical entry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.4.4 Two sample lexical entries of a Russian ECD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.5 Meaning-Text linguistics and dependencies in natural language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.5.1 Three types of linguistic dependency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5.5.2 Criteria for syntactic dependency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Summing Up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Appendices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Appendix I : Phonetic Table\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Appendix II: Surface-Syntactic Relations of English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Appendix III: Possible Combinations of the Three Types of Linguistic Dependency between Two Lexemes in a Clause\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e References\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Abbreviations and Notations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Subject and Name Index with a Glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index of Languages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359750259031,"sku":"9781618114563","price":78.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618114563.jpg?v=1754125599","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/language-from-meaning-to-text-9781618114563","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}