Selected Lexical And Grammatical Issues In The Meaningtext Theory

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Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning-text Theory

Author : Leo Wanner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230943
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning-text Theory written by Leo Wanner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning Text Theory (MTT) is a lexicon-centred and dependency-based theory for the description of language using a holistic model that incorporates semantics, syntax, morphology and lexis. This volume, prepared on the occasion of Igor Mel'cuk's 70th birthday, offers a cross-section of the current advances in MTT and its applications. The first part of the book focuses on lexical phenomena that are still largely neglected in mainstream linguistics: sound symbolism as manifested by ideophones, and idiosyncratic lexical relations as manifested by lexical functions (LFs). In particular, LFs are addressed from different angles (including the introduction of new standard LFs, the argument structure and semantic decomposition of lexical relations captured by LFs, automatic recognition of LF-instances in corpora, and the use of LFs in terminology and natural language processing). The second part of the book deals with such prominent model-oriented issues as semantic paraphrasing in MTT, the role of phrase structure in MTT and syntactic analysis within MTT.

Text and Discourse Connectedness

Author : Maria-Elisabeth Conte
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027286027
Total Pages : 614 pages
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Book Synopsis Text and Discourse Connectedness by : Maria-Elisabeth Conte

Download or read book Text and Discourse Connectedness written by Maria-Elisabeth Conte and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and particles, theme, topic, ellipsis, etc., the second group of papers discusses the connectedness in texts/discourses of different types (narrative texts, stories, horoscopes, anecdotes, poems, comics, etc.), and, finally, the papers in the third group discuss general theoretical/methodological questions concerning connectedness.

Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages

Author : Sergei Nirenburg
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1586039547
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages by : Sergei Nirenburg

Download or read book Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages written by Sergei Nirenburg and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technologies enabling computers to process specific languages facilitate economic and political progress of societies where these languages are spoken. Development of methods and systems for language processing is therefore a worthy goal for national governments as well as for business entities and scientific and educational institutions in every country in the world. As work on systems and resources for the 'lower-density' languages becomes more widespread, an important question is how to leverage the results and experience accumulated by the field of computational linguistics for the major languages in the development of resources and systems for lower-density languages. This issue has been at the core of the NATO Advanced Studies Institute on language technologies for middle- and low-density languages held in Georgia in October 2007. This publication is a collection - of publication-oriented versions - of the lectures presented there and is a useful source of knowledge about many core facets of modern computational-linguistic work. By the same token, it can serve as a reference source for people interested in learning about strategies that are best suited for developing computational-linguistic capabilities for lesser-studied languages - either 'from scratch' or using components developed for other languages. The book should also be quite useful in teaching practical system- and resource-building topics in computational linguistics."--Site Web de l'éditeur.

Anaphors in Text

Author : Monika Schwarz-Friesel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027292582
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Anaphors in Text by : Monika Schwarz-Friesel

Download or read book Anaphors in Text written by Monika Schwarz-Friesel and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive, neurolinguistic, formal and computational perspectives, each contribution representing the respective ‘state of the art’ on a high theoretical and empirical level. The volume contains three thematic parts: Anaphors in Cognitive, Text- and Discourse Linguistics; The Syntax and Semantics of Anaphors; and Neurolinguistic Studies on the reception of anaphoric reference. The contributions investigate several Indo-European languages.

Introducing Maltese Linguistics

Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205809
Total Pages : 439 pages
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Download or read book Introducing Maltese Linguistics written by Bernard Comrie and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meltese Linguistics offers the general linguist a wide range if still largely unexplored areas of study. This collection of articles highlights a selection of on- going research projects in phonological, morphological and syntactic issues.

An Advanced Introduction to Semantics

Author : Igor Mel'čuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108631630
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book An Advanced Introduction to Semantics written by Igor Mel'čuk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Semantics

Author : Igor Mel’čuk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268967
Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book Semantics written by Igor Mel’čuk and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a 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, the present volume closes the publication of the three volume series. It discusses in detail several linguistic notions crucial to the development of Meaning-Text models of natural languages: semantic and syntactic actants, government pattern, lexical functions, linguistic connotations, phrasemes, the meaning of grammatical cases, and linguistic dependencies. The notions under analysis are illustrated from a variety of languages. Reflecting 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.

Semantic and Lexical Universals

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027285780
Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book Semantic and Lexical Universals written by Cliff Goddard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically and typologically diverse languages. In fact the word 'collection' is not fully appropriate in this case, since the papers report research undertaken specifically for the present volume, and shaped by the same guidelines. They constitute parallel and strictly comparable answers to the same set of questions, coordinated effort with a common aim, and a common methodology.The goal of identifying the universal human concepts found in all languages, is of fundamental importance, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view, since these concepts provide the basis of the “psychic unity of mankind”, underlying the clearly visible diversity of human cultures. They also allow us to better understand that diversity itself, because they provide a common measure, without which no precise and meaningful comparisons are possible at all. A set of truly universal (or even near-universal) concepts can provide us with an invaluable tool for interpreting, and explaining all the culture-specific meanings encoded in the language-and-culture systems of the world. It can also provide us with a tool for explaining meanings across cultures — in education, business, trade, international relations, and so on. The book contains 13 chapters on individual languages including Japanese (by Masayuki Onishi), Chinese (by Hilary Chappel), Thai (by Anthony Diller), Ewe (Africa, by Felix Ameka), Miskitu languages of South America (by Kenneth Hall), Australian Aboriginal languages Aranda, Yankunytjatjara and Kayardild (by Jean Harkins & David Wilkins, Cliff Goddard, and Nicholas Evans), the Austronesian languages Samoan, Longgu, Acehnese and Mangap-Mbula (by Ulrike Mosel, Deborah Hill, Mark Durie and Robert Bugenhagen), the Papuan language Kalam (by Andrew Pawley), and, last but not least French (by Bert Peters).In addition to the chapters on individual languages the book includes three theoretical chapters; “Semantic theory and semantic universals” (by Goddard), “Introducing lexical primitives” (by Goddard and Wierzbicka), and “Semantic primitives across languages: a critical review” (by Wierzbicka).

Theories of Lexical Semantics

Author : Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019870030X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Lexical Semantics written by Dirk Geeraerts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an introduction to the history and current state of theories of word meanings.

Discourse, Grammar and Typology

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728573X
Total Pages : 377 pages
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Download or read book Discourse, Grammar and Typology written by Werner Abraham and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-02-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequently investigated. The papers are arranged in 5 groups: Transitivity and voice; Clausal modality; Typology and discourse categories; Language and Culture; Functionality.

Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar

Author : Mike Hannay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027292590
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Book Synopsis Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar by : Mike Hannay

Download or read book Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar written by Mike Hannay and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar. Taken together, however, they typify current work being conducted from the grammatical perspective within the functionalist enterprise, emphasizing on the relation between structure and usage. A fundamental goal of the enterprise is to identify linguistic structures which are constrained by specific features of use, or which actually encode specific features of use, as many of the contributions here show.

The Semantics of Grammar

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230196
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Semantics of Grammar by : Anna Wierzbicka

Download or read book The Semantics of Grammar written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The semantics of grammar" presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither "autonomous" nor "arbitrary," but that it follows from "semantics." It is shown that every grammatical construction encodes a certain semantic structure, which can be revealed and rigorously stated, so that the meanings encoded in grammar can be compared in a precise and illuminating way, within one language and across language boundaries. The author develops a semantic metalanguage based on lexical universals or near-universals (and, ultimately, on a system of universal semantic primitives), and shows that the same semantic metalanguage can be used for explicating lexical, grammatical and pragmatic aspects of language and thus offers a method for an integrated linguistic description based on semantic foundations. Analyzing data from a number of different languages (including English, Russian and Japanese) the author explores the notion of ethnosyntax and, via semantics, links syntax and morphology with culture. She attemps to demonstrate that the use of a semantic metalanguage based on lexical universals makes it possible to rephrase the Humboldt-Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in such a way that it can be tested and treated as a program for empirical research.

Dependency in Linguistic Description

Author : Alain Polguère
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289581
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Book Synopsis Dependency in Linguistic Description by : Alain Polguère

Download or read book Dependency in Linguistic Description written by Alain Polguère and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers three major topics crucial for contemporary syntactic research. Firstly, it offers a sketch of a general theory of dependency in natural language. Different types of linguistic dependencies are distinguished (semantic, syntactic, and morphological), the criteria for their recognition are formulated, and all possible combinations are discussed in some detail. Secondly, it demonstrates the application of the general theory in two specific domains: establishing the system of Surface-Syntactic Relations in French and linear positioning of clitics in Serbian. Thirdly, it presents a formal sketch of Head-Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar modelled in terms of syntactic dependencies.

Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse

Author : Christopher S. Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729223X
Total Pages : 514 pages
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Book Synopsis Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse by : Christopher S. Butler

Download or read book Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse written by Christopher S. Butler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday’s division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification, formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics.

Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs

Author : Anna Pompei
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110747995
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs by : Anna Pompei

Download or read book Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs written by Anna Pompei and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the ‘insignificance’ of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and φ-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conveyed by the noun. This book deals with the light verb constructions as instances of complex verbs, intended as multi-predicational but monoclausal structures. This allows to deepen the actual verb lightness, the effective noun predicativity, as well as their effect on the cohesion of the construction. The papers in this volume reflect on the concrete contribution of noun and verb to the event and argument structure, and on the relevance of semantically different noun classes for the verb selection. From different theoretical approaches, data of a great variety of languages are investigated, such as Indo-European languages – both modern (Germanic, Slavic, Romance and Iranian languages) and ancient (Latin and Ancient Greek) – but also Mandarin Chinese, and different polysynthetic languages (e.g. Ket, Nivkh, Murrinh-Patha, Kiowa, Bininj Gun-wok, Ainu). The range of topics, languages and perspectives presented in this book make it of great interest to both theoretical and applied linguists.

Coding Participant Marking

Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289611
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book Coding Participant Marking written by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in languages of northeastern Africa, which also use converbs and light verb plus coverb constructions. Although the categorial distinction between nouns and verbs is generally clear in African languages, a number of them nevertheless provide intricate analytical challenges in this respect. Whereas some languages are strongly head marking at the clausal level, others manifest an interesting mixture of alternative strategies for the coding of participants. The analysis of information packaging, and related issues such as split ergativity, Differential Object Marking, and discourse-configurational properties also play a role in several contributions. The collection contains not only innovative analyses for the respective language families these languages belong to, but also material relevant for the current debate in theoretical linguistics concerning lexical specification as against construction-based approaches towards argument structure.

The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case

Author : J?hanna Bar?dal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205752
Total Pages : 457 pages
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Download or read book The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case written by J?hanna Bar?dal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on non-syntactic factors in the development of case by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. Examined fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol.