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Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory
In honour of Igor Mel'čuk
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Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk, Edited by Leo Wanner (2007)
Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk, Edited by Leo Wanner (2007)
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.
This title replaces:
Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk, Edited by Leo Wanner (2007)
Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk, Edited by Leo Wanner (2007)
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 84] 2007. xviii, 377 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- PrefaceLeo Wanner | p. xi
- What to Do with the Ideophones? A Problem in Lexical Classification From Upper Necaxa TotonacDavid Beck | p. 1
- Lexical Function StandardnessAlain Polguère | p. 43
- Towards the Synthesis of Support Verb ConstructionsMargarita Alonso-Ramos | p. 93
- Motivation of Lexical Association in Collocations: The Case of Intensifiers For “Nouns of Joy”Francis Grossmann and Agnès Tutin | p. 135
- Using Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology to Describe termsMarie-Claude L'Homme | p. 163
- Lexical Functions in Actual NLP-ApplicationsJury D. Apresjan, Igor M. Boguslavsky, Leonid L. Iomdin and Leonid L. Tsinman | p. 199
- Automatic Recognition of Lexical Function InstancesLeo Wanner and Bernd Bohnet | p. 231
- Semantic Equivalence Rules in MT-ParaphrasingJasmina Milićević | p. 263
- Phrasing It DifferentlyKim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane | p. 293
- A Generative Approach to Parsing in the Framework of the Meaning–Text TheoryAlexis Nasr | p. 333
- Subject Index | pp. 363–374
- Name Index | pp. 375–377
“This volume is very useful to know the current state of Meaning-Text Theory. Although it does not include a complete panorama of this interesting linguistic theory, it reflects two hot-spots of MTT: lexical function and its application to NLP. The volume is useful to all workers in MTT, it is also helpful to NLP lexicographers and researchers, in particular those who are searching for theoretical fundamentals of linguistic practice.”
Liu Haitao, Communication University of China, on Linguist List 19.1430, 2008
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