Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning-Text Theory: In Honour of Igor Mel*cuk (Studies in Language Companion Series)

ISBN 10: 9027230943 / ISBN 13: 9789027230942

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007

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• Title: Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning-Text Theory: In Honour of Igor Mel*cuk (Studies in Language Companion Series)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027230943
• ISBN 13: 9789027230942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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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'čuk’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.