An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach by Igor Mel'?uk (

Description: An Advanced Introduction to Semantics by Igor Mel'čuk, Jasmina Milićević Aimed primarily at graduate level students and researchers, this textbook presents a model of semantics that forms a central component of human language: it explains how people create sentences based on pre-constructed and formally represented meanings. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Igor Meluk is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Université de Montréal. One of the pioneers of Machine-Translation research, he launched, together with A. Zholkovsky, the Meaning-Text linguistic approach – a universal linguistic theory. Jasmina Milievi is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. She is co-author of the three-volume Introduction à la linguistique (2014) with Igor Meluk. Table of Contents Part I. Fundamentals: 1. Semantics in language and linguistics; 2. Some basic linguistic notions; Part II. Meaning in Language and Its Description: 3. Linguistic meaning; 4. Lexical meaning, lexical items and lexical units; 5. Lexicographic definition; 6. Lexical relations; 7. Lexical functions; 8. The lexical stock of a language and the dictionary; 9. Sentential meaning and meaning relations between sentences; Part III. Meaning-Text Model of Semantics: 10. Semantic representation; 11. Deep-syntactic representation; 12. Semantic rules; Concluding remarks; Appendix: some mathematical and logical notions useful to linguistics; Exercises; References; Notion and term index cum glossary; Definition index; Language index; Lexical unit and semanteme index. Review A practical and comprehensive approach to the description and analysis of linguistic meaning bridging the narrow interests of traditional formal theories and the looser approaches to semantic representation favoured by usage-based and typologically oriented researchers. The authors systematically introduce a rigorous and intuitively accessible approach to the representation of the meaning of words and sentences that is urgently needed by linguists interested in the description of language, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and computational linguists in search of formalizable tools for the modelling of the semantics of natural language. David Beck, University of Alberta Promotional Presents, in simple and clear terms, the way in which humans express their ideas by talking. Review Quote A practical and comprehensive approach to the description and analysis of linguistic meaning bridging the narrow interests of traditional formal theories and the looser approaches to semantic representation favoured by usage-based and typologically oriented researchers. The authors systematically introduce a rigorous and intuitively accessible approach to the representation of the meaning of words and sentences that is urgently needed by linguists interested in the description of language, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and computational linguists in search of formalizable tools for the modelling of the semantics of natural language. David Beck, University of Alberta Promotional "Headline" Presents, in simple and clear terms, the way in which humans express their ideas by talking. Description for Bookstore Aimed primarily at graduate level students and researchers, this textbook presents a model of semantics that forms a central component of human language: it explains how people create sentences based on pre-constructed and formally represented meanings. Description for Library Aimed primarily at graduate level students and researchers, this textbook presents a model of semantics that forms a central component of human language: it explains how people create sentences based on pre-constructed and formally represented meanings. Details ISBN1108481620 Publisher Cambridge University Press ISBN-10 1108481620 ISBN-13 9781108481625 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle A Meaning-Text Approach Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 401.43 Pages 450 Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-04-02 Short Title An Advanced Introduction to Semantics Language English UK Release Date 2020-04-02 AU Release Date 2020-04-02 NZ Release Date 2020-04-02 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 26 Tables, black and white; 118 Line drawings, black and white Author Jasmina Milievi Alternative 9781108674553 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:149332309;

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