Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language.
Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830-1930
This book aims to destroy some of these prejudices and to show that in Europe semantics was an important, although controversial, area at that time.
Semantic Structures
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 ...
Semantics
This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts.
The Semantic Sources of the Words for the Emotions in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and the Germanic Languages
... semantic change illustrated by Skr . trasati ( a ) ' shake , ' ( b ) ' be afraid ' ( cf. also Gr . τρέω ' flee , ' Lat . terreo ' frighten ' ) would have to be taken merely as a narrowing of the meaning from ( a ) ' shake , as ...
Chinese Lexical Semantics
... semantic feature knowledge base constructed on the HowNet and The Semantic Knowledge-base of Contemporary Chinese (SKCC), eliminate redundant features, and achieve the dimension reduction based on semantic features. In theory, it can ...
Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics
... semantic representations . ' The Moscow school of semantics launched their program of semantic analysis based on semantic primi- tives in a number of pioneering articles by A. K. Zholkovsky ( see in particular Zholkovsky 1964 ) ...
Chinese Lexical Semantics
... semantic characteristics , they will be affected by the latter and produce related semantic characteristics . For example , it produces emotional meanings of praise and criticism , which is semantic prosody . The so - called semantic ...
Chinese Lexical Semantics
... , 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14331-619 Table 1. Tagset of Syntactic Categories tag syntactic category S Lexical Semantic Restrictions on the Syntactic Representation of the Semantic Roles of Pinjie Class 1 Introduction.
Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
... Semantic representation of Has the tall man been crying ? would be extremely complex and cumbersome . An example of the ... semantic roles Thematic relations Semantic macroroles Grammatical 2.4 Semantic roles 53 Semantic roles.
Semantic Syntax
Aims to provide the reader with some insight into certain live issues of linguistic theory which seem crucial to our understanding of the phenomenon 'human language.'
Semantic and Lexical Universals
It can also provide us with a tool for explaining meanings across cultures in education, business, trade, international relations, and so on.The book contains 13 chapters on individual languages including Japanese (by Masayuki Onishi), ...
The Semantics of Doublets Studied in Old and Middle French
... semantic history of the members of the group : paladin , palatin < PALA- TINUS ; fantasque , fantastique < PHANTASTICUS ; partiel partial ... semantic development , and of the three classes is the 31 The Semantics of Doublets.
Semantics
Interest in Semantics has been further stimulated recently by a number of significant, and often contriversial, theoretical advances; and the publication of this second edition has enabled Professor Palmer to bring his survey thoroughly up ...
Studies in English Philology
... semantic development might have taken . In the writer's opinion scholars have been too prone to see , especially in the older dialects , a natural semantic development where often there is only semantic bor- rowing from the more highly ...
The Semantics of Blessing and Cursing in Ancient Hebrew
... semantic [ ... ] one " .2 The relevance of such propositions is evident in the study of a semantic field such as blessing and cursing . Blessing and cursing are verbal acts found in most cultures . They are used in both formal ritual ...
Philologica
... Semantic Object to the comple- ment of the verb " to be " , which in the Indo - European languages follows the case of the Semantic Subject ( Balbus fuit artifex , dico eum poetam esse ) , though the Arabic verb kāna " be " , quite ...
Theory and Evidence in Semantics
... semantic similarity is central . Brent ( 1991 ) shows that one can distinguish stative verbs from oth- ers using the ... semantic combination as a HIERARCHICAL CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM ( HCSP ) . In principle Mehler thus ...
American Journal of Philology
... semantic or func- tional ; and therefore it will be found that in most cases of Retrospective Incompleteness the second sentence is subse- quent logically to the first . In Chapter V , devoted to a discussion of Change , Mendell calls ...
Language
... semantic analogy usually discussed in linguistic works . No comprehensive study of them has as yet been made and the examples so far collected could easily be multiplied . But these , in our opinion , are by no means the only or the ...