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  title info:
    title: Semantic structure in English
  name:
    name part: Feist, Jim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: 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.As of October 2024, this e-book is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
  table of contents: Semantic Structure in English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Goals of the book; 1.2 Approach; 1.3 Argument of the book; 1.4 Plan of the book; 2. Semantic structures in the strata of English; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Semantic structure in lexis; 2.2.1 Paradigmatic lexical relations; 2.2.2 Syntagmatic lexical relations; 2.2.2.1 Grammatical and content items; 2.2.2.2 Semantic classes; 2.2.2.3 Semantic classes and cognitive classes; 2.2.3 Words without paradigmatic or syntagmatic relations; 2.2.3.1 Interjections; 2.2.3.2 Holophrases.
  table of contents: 2.3 Semantic structure in morphology2.3.1 Semantic classes; 2.3.2 Grammatical meaning; 2.3.3 Dependency and modification; 2.4 Semantic structure in syntax; 2.4.1 Semantic structure of clauses: The figure; 2.4.1.1 Constituents of figures; 2.4.1.2 Relationships among figure constituents; 2.4.1.3 Significance of group order; 2.4.2 Semantic structure in groups; 2.4.2.1 Groups as part of the semantic hierarchy; 2.4.2.2 Modification structure; 2.4.2.3 Compositionality; 2.5 Semantic structure in phonology; 2.5.1 Introduction; 2.5.2 Semantics of tonality; 2.5.3 Semantics of tone.
  table of contents: 2.5.4 Semantics of tonicity2.5.5 Semantics of rhythm; 2.5.6 Semantic structure in phonetics; 2.5.7 Discussion: Semantic structure in phonology; 2.5.7.1 Wave-like structures; 2.5.7.2 Field-like structures; 2.5.7.3 Basicness; 2.5.7.4 Compositionality in phonological semantics; 2.5.8 Conclusion: Semantics in the phonological stratum; 2.5.8.1 Structure; 2.5.8.2 Meaning; 2.5.8.3 Semiosis; 2.5.8.4 Nature of language; 2.6 Conclusion: Semantic structure in the strata of English; 3. Basis of semantic structure; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The intention to speak; 3.2.1 Main intention.
  table of contents: 3.2.2 Subordinate intentions3.2.3 Discussion; 3.2.4 Conclusion; 3.3 Functions, as the formulation of intention; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Expressive function; 3.3.3 Interpersonal function; 3.3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.3.2 Interpersonal action; 3.3.3.3 Personal relationships; 3.3.3.4 Social relations; 3.3.4 Ideational function; 3.3.5 Conclusion; 3.4 Constraints on meaning; 3.4.1 Introduction; 3.4.2 Linguistic constraints; 3.4.3 Semiotic constraints; 3.4.3.1 Introduction; 3.4.3.2 Semiotic processes; 3.4.3.3 Semiotic levels: Types of linguistic sign; 3.4.3.4 Forms of linguistic sign.
  table of contents: 3.4.3.5 Conclusion: Semiotic constraints3.5 Conclusion: Basis of semantic structure; 4. Elements of semantic structure; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Preliminaries; 4.2.1 Areas of meaning: Cognitive and linguistic meaning; 4.2.2 Aspects of meaning; 4.3 Dimensions of linguistic meaning; 4.3.1 Introduction; 4.3.2 Quality dimension; 4.3.3 Intensity dimension; 4.3.4 Specificity dimension; 4.3.5 Vagueness dimension; 4.3.6 Basicness dimension; 4.3.7 Viewpoint dimension; 4.3.8 Boundedness dimension; 4.3.9 Expectedness dimension; 4.3.10 Salience dimension; 4.4 Content meaning; 4.4.1 Introduction.
  note: by Jim Feist.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Sentences
  subject:
    topic: Structural linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Systematic grammar
  subject:
    topic: Functionalism (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Linguistique structurale
  subject:
    topic: Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Sentences
  subject:
    topic: Functionalism (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Structural linguistics
  classification: PE1585
  classification: HF 421
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    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
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