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An Advanced Introduction to Semantics: A Meaning-Text Approach
Contributor(s): Mel'čuk, Igor (Author), Milicevic, Jasmina (Author)

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 ISBN: 1108723047     ISBN-13: 9781108723046
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $42.74  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics
Dewey: 401.43
LCCN: 2019039613
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 8.9" L (1.3 lbs) 450 pages
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Mel'čuk, Igor: - "Igor Mel'čuk 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."Milicevic, Jasmina: - Jasmina Milicevic is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. She is co-author of the three-volume Introduction à la linguistique (2014) with Igor Mel'čuk.
 
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