Semantics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC Data -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Notations -- Organization of Semantics: From Meaning to Text -- General Introduction -- 1 Preliminary Remarks -- 2 The Boundaries of Meaning-Text Semantics -- 2.1 What is Excluded from Linguistic Semantics in SMT -- 2.2 What is Studied by Linguistic Semantics in SMT -- 3 A Short History and the Present State of Meaning-Text Semantics -- 4 The Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Part I. Meaning-Text Approach and Meaning-Text Models -- 1. Some Basic Linguistic Notions -- Notes -- 2. Linguistic Paraphrase -- 1 The Notion of Linguistic Paraphrase -- 2 Characterization of Paraphrases -- 2.1 The Central Place of Paraphrase in Language and Linguistics -- 2.2 Mutual Substitutability of Paraphrases in Text -- 2.3 Linguistic Meaning vs. the Informational Content of Paraphrases -- 2.4 Exactness of Paraphrases -- 2.5 Quasi-linguistic Paraphrases -- 2.6 Typology of Paraphrases -- 3 An Illustration: Paraphrases of an English Sentence -- 4 Semantic Neutralization as a Condition for Paraphrasing -- 4.1 Linguistic Neutralization: General Remarks -- 4.2 Phonological and Morphological Neutralization -- 4.3 Notion of Semantic Neutralization -- 4.4 Two Phenomena Similar to, but Different from, Semantic Neutralization -- Notes -- 3. Meaning-Text Theory and Meaning-Text Linguistic Models -- 1 The Basic Tenet of Meaning-Text Theory -- 2 The Three Postulates of Meaning-Text Theory -- 2.1 Postulate 1 of MTT: Language as a Meaning-Text Correspondence -- 2.2 Postulate 2 of MTT: Linguistic Description as a Functional Model -- 2.3 Postulate 3 of MTT: Multiple Levels of Linguistic Representation -- 3 The Meaning-Text Linguistic Model -- 3.1 The Major Modules of an MTM and the Corresponding Linguistic Representations -- 3.2 The Main Properties of the MTM.

3.3 Reasons for the Synthetic Orientation of the MTM -- 3.4 Meaning-Text Models within the General Model of Human Linguistic Behavior -- Bibliographical Remarks -- Notes -- Part II. Semantic Representation in a Meaning-Text Linguistic Model -- 4. The Semantic Structure of Utterances -- 1 General Characterization of the Semantic Structure -- 1.1 Substantive Characterization of the Semantic Structure -- 1.2 Formal Characterization of Semantic Structures -- 2 Labels on the Nodes of a Semantic Structure: Semantemes -- 2.1 Substantive Properties of Semantemes -- 2.2 Formal Properties of Semantemes -- 3 Labels on the Arcs of a Semantic Structure: Against Semantic Roles -- 3.1 Non-homogeneity of the SemS that Uses Sem-roles -- 3.2 Infinite Regression Provoked by Sem-roles -- 3.3 Openness of the List of Sem-roles -- 3.4 Inadequacy of Sem-roles -- 4 Specific Conventions Used in Semantic Structures -- 4.1 The Presentation of Grammemes in the SemS -- 4.2 Coordination in the SemS -- 4.3 Operator Semantemes -- 4.4 Questions and Exclamations (Speech Acts) -- 4.5 Some Allowable Parallel Semantic Expressions -- 5 A Sample Semantic Structure -- 6 Semantic Structure in Meaning-Text Correspondence -- 7 The Formal Language of Semantic Structure -- 7.1 The Notion of Formal Language -- 7.2 The Semantic Formal Language of MTT -- Bibliographical Remarks -- Notes -- 5. Semantemes of Causation in Natural Language -- 1 Causation in Natural Language -- 2 The Semanteme 'cause1' [= 'be the cause of'] -- 2.1 Introductory Remarks -- 2.2 The Semanteme 'actI.1' -- 2.3 The Semanteme 'entail' -- 2.4 The Decompositions of 'cause1' -- 3 The Semanteme 'cause2' (= 'be the causer of') -- 4 Causative Verbs and Verbs of Causation -- 4.1 Causative Verbs -- 4.2 Verbs of Causation -- Bibliographical Remarks -- Notes -- 6. Semantic-Communicative Structure.

1 General Characterization of the Semantic-Communicative Structure -- 1.1 The Target of the Sem-CommS -- 1.2 The Means of the Sem-CommS -- 1.3 The Sem-CommS vs. the SemS -- 1.4 Formal Properties of the Sem-CommS -- 2 Semantic-Communicative Dominance -- 2.1 The Notion of Communicative Dominance -- 2.2 The Role of Comm-Dominance in the Meaning-Text Transition -- 3 Semantic-Communicative Oppositions -- 3.1 General Overview of Sem-Comm-Oppositions -- 3.2 Thematicity -- 3.3 Givenness -- 3.4 Focalization -- 3.5 Perspective -- 3.6 Emphasis -- 3.7 Assertivity -- 3.8 Unitariness -- 3.9 Locutionality -- 4 Pairing of SemSs with Sem-CommSs -- 4.1 Well-formedness of Sem-CommS -- 4.2 Communicatively Sensitive Semantemes -- 4.3 Communicatively Sensitive Configurations of Semantemes -- Bibliographical Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Index of Terms, Names & Concepts -- Index of Linguistic Items -- Language Index.