Semantics: From Meaning to Text. Volume 1

by Igor Mel’uk

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027205965
• ISBN13: 9789027205964
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 436 Pages