Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory

In honour of Igor Mel'čuk

Editor

Leo Wanner | ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University

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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)

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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.

This title replaces:
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, 380 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.84

Table of Contents

Preface

Leo Wanner | p. xi

What to Do with the Ideophones? A Problem in Lexical Classification From Upper Necaxa Totonac

David Beck | p. 1

Lexical Function Standardness

Alain Polguère | p. 43

Towards the Synthesis of Support Verb Constructions

Margarita 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 terms

Marie-Claude L'Homme | p. 163

Lexical Functions in Actual NLP-Applications

Jury D. Apresjan, Igor M. Boguslavsky, Leonid L. Iomdin and Leonid L. Tsinman | p. 199

Automatic Recognition of Lexical Function Instances

Leo Wanner and Bernd Bohnet | p. 231

Semantic Equivalence Rules in MT-Paraphrasing

Jasmina Milićević | p. 263

Phrasing It Differently

Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane | p. 293

A Generative Approach to Parsing in the Framework of the Meaning–Text Theory

Alexis Nasr | p. 333

Subject Index | p. 359

Name Index | p. 375

“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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