Anna Wierzbicka, Semantic Decomposition, and the Meaning-Text Approach
| Autor: | Igor A Mel’čuk |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, Vol 22, Iss 3, Pp 521-538 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2312-9182 2312-9212 |
| DOI: | 10.22363/2312-9182-2018-22-3-521-538 |
| Popis: | The paper aims to demonstrate that the main contribution of Anna Wierzbicka to linguistics is the idea of semantic decomposition - that is, representing meaning in terms of structurally organized configurations of simpler meanings - and a huge amount of specific decompositions of lexical meanings from many languages. One of possible developments of this idea of Wierzbicka’s is the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, and in particular - the Meaning-Text model of natural language. To illustrate the importance and fruitfulness of semantic decomposition, two Meaning-Text mini-models are presented for English and Russian. Two semantically equivalent sentences of these languages are considered: (1) a. Eng. A honeymooner was fatally attacked by a shark. ~ b. Rus. Molodožën pogib v rezul´tate napadenija akuly vo vremja medovogo mesjaca lit. ‘Young.husband died as result of.attack of.shark during honey month’ The formal representations of these sentences at four levels-Meaning-Text style-are shown: semantic, deep-syntactic, surface-syntactic, and deep-morphological. Examples of formal rules relating the representations of two adjacent levels are presented. |
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