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Published early 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
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Published early 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'cuk'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.
