Recent Trends in Meaning-Text Theory.

Recent Trends in Meaning-Text Theory.

The present volume contains articles of well-known representatives of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other related linguistic theories. Founded by I. Mel'cuk and A. Zholkovsky in the sixties in Moscow, MTT soon became known in the West as a "prominent outsider" theory. The picture...

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Main Author: Wanner, Leo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997.
Series:Studies in Language Companion ; vol. 39.
Subjects:
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Meaning-text theory (Linguistics)
semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Meaning-Text Semantic Networks as a Formal Language; Towards a Notional Representation of Meaning in theMeaning-Text Model: The Case of the French SI; Verb Categorization and the Format of a Lexicographic Definition(Semantic Types of Causative Relations); Semantic Communicative Structure of Verbal vs. Conjunctive Causative Expressions (to kill/to cause to die vs. to die because P); Theme, Rheme, and Communicative Structure in Lushootseedand Bella Coola; Scope of Generic Noun Phrases and Its Correlation with theVerb Meaning in Russian
  • Valency and Underlying Structure: An Alternative View onDependencyA Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase-Structure Grammars, with Special Consideration of Word-Order Phenomena; Subject Index; Name Index

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