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Author | : Peter Hugoe Matthews |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2001-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521625685 |
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This concise history of structural linguistics charts its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For structuralists a language is a self-contained and tightly organised system whose history is of changes from one state of the system to another. This idea has its origin in the nineteenth century and was developed in the twentieth by Saussure and his followers, including the school of Bloomfield in the United States. Through the work of Chomsky, especially, it is still very influential. Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyses the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the 'Chomskyan revolution' in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning.
Author | : Samuel Abraham |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2018-12-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3111352927 |
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Author | : Algirdas Julien Greimas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eugenio Coseriu |
Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Semantics |
ISBN | : 9783878081586 |
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Author | : Fred Landman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401132127 |
Download Structures for Semantics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are tools that help us build semantic theories. Our real aim is to understand semantic phenomena and we need the technique to make our understanding of these phenomena precise. The problems in semantics are most often too hard and slippery, to completely trust our informal understanding of them. This should not be taken as an attack on informal reasoning in semantics. On the contrary, in my view, very often the essential insight in a diagnosis of what is going on in a certain semantic phenomenon takes place at the informal level. It is very easy, however, to be misled into thinking that a certain informal insight provides a satisfying analysis of a certain problem; it will often turn out that there is a fundamental unclarity about what the informal insight actually is. Formalization helps to sharpen those insights and put them to the test.
Author | : Jim Feist |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2016-09-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027266522 |
Download Semantic Structure in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure”, but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual thought in many different linguistic ways, we cannot equate conceptual and semantic structures. The research reported in this book shows semantic structure to be in part hierarchic, fitting the syntax in which it is expressed, and partly a network, fitting the nature of the mind, from which it springs. It is complex enough to provide for the emotive and imaginative dimensions of language, and for shifts of standard meanings in context, and the “rules” that control them. Showing the full structure of English semantics requires attention to many currently topical issues, and since the underlying theory is fresh, there are fresh implications for them. The most important of those issues is information structure, which is given full treatment, showing its overall structure, and its relation to semantics and the whole grammar of English.
Author | : Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110085044 |
Download Words, Worlds, and Contexts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Algirdas Julien Greimas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
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Author | : Ray S. Jackendoff |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1992-04-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780262600200 |
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Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the system of Conceptual Semantics described in Ray Jackendoff's earlier books Semantics and Cognition and Consciousness and the Computational Mind. Jackendoff summarizes the relevant arguments in his two previous books, setting out the basic parameters for the formalization of meaning, and comparing his mentalistic approach with Fodor's Language of Thought hypothesis. He then takes up the Problem of Meaning, extending the range of semantic fields encompassed by the Conceptual Semantics formalism, and the Problem of Correspondence, formalizing the relation between semantic and syntactic structure. Both of these problems must be fully addressed in order to develop a general theory of language that is concerned with syntax and semantics and their points of connection. Few books on lexical semantics present such a comprehensive analysis of such a wide range of phenomena from a unified perspective. Besides discussing the conceptual structures of hundreds of words and constructions, Jackendoff extends and deepens the theory to come to grips with such crucial issues as roles and marking; arguments, modifiers, and adjuncts; binding and control; and the thematic linking hierarchy.