An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach

by Jasmina Milicevic and Igor Mel'cuk

Book Overview

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108723047
• ISBN13: 9781108723046
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.9"