CONTENTS -- Preface -- Meaning-Text Semantic Networks as a Formal Language -- 1 Semantic Networks: One of the Languages of Linguistics -- 2 Definition of Nine Basic Semantic Concepts -- 2.1 General Presentation of the Taxonomy of Linguistic Meanings -- 2.2 The Key Concept of MEANING -- 2.3 Concepts Belonging to the Specification of the Semantic Structure of MT-Networks -- 2.4 The case of PRESUPPOSITION: A Concept Belonging to the Specification of the Communicative Structure of MT-Networks -- 3 Specification of the Formal Language of MT-Networks -- 4 Conclusion -- Towards a Notional Representation of Meaning in the Meaning-Text Model: The Case of the French SI -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Types of Paraphrases and Expression of Causality -- 3 The Information in the ECD -- 4 The Relation of Causality and Description of Fr.SI conj in the ECD -- 4.1 Is SI a Logical Connective? -- 4.2 Nature of the Definition Zone in Lexical Entries -- 4.3 Analysis of SI: Nine Different Lexemes -- 4.3.1 De Cornulier's Description of SI -- 4.3.2 Problems Raised by the Definition of Si X, Y as 'Dans le cas où X, Y' -- 4.3.3 Temporary Description: Modal Analysis of SI -- 4.3.4 Insufficiency of the Four Basic Values: The Role of Contextual Elements -- 4.4 Description of SI 1 in the extended ECD -- 4.4.1 Iordanskaja's Tests -- 4.4.2 SI 1 : Speech Act and/or Descriptive Content -- 4.4.3 Representation of Supposition in Terms of 'Asserted Content' and 'Presupposed Content' -- 4.4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Notions and the Notional Dictionary -- 5.1 Some Characteristics of Notions -- 5.2 Theoretical Status of Notions -- 5.3 Advantages of the Notional Representation -- 5.4 Relations between a Notional Dictionary and the ECD -- 5.5 Notional Representation of the Meaning of Sentences -- Verb Categorization and the Format of a Lexicographic Definition (Semantic Types of Causative Relations).

1 Introduction -- 2 Non-intentional (Non-controlled) Causation -- 3 Intentional (Controlled) Causation -- 4 Partial Control -- 5 Guaranteed Causation -- 6 Conclusion -- Semantic Communicative Structure of Verbal vs.Conjunctive Causative Expressions (to kill/to cause to die vs. to die because P) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Verbal vs. Conjunctive Causative Expressions: Specification, Thematization and Focalization -- 2.1 Specification -- 2.2 Thematization -- 2.3 Focalization -- 3 Lexical vs.Syntactic Verbal Causative Expressions: Unitarization -- 4 Conclusion -- Theme, Rheme, and Communicative Structure in Lushootseed and Bella Coola -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Subject and Predicate -- 2.1 The Canonical Clause -- 2.2 Verbless Sentences -- 3 Theme, Rheme, and Syntactic Structure -- 3.1 Wh-Questions -- 3.2 The Lushootseed Existential Negative -- 4 The Communicative Structure of the Verbless Sentence -- 4.1 The Syntactic and Semantic Representation of Deixis -- 4.2 Sem-Theme, Sem-Rheme, and the DSyntR -- 5 Conclusion: Towards a Communicative Typology of Language -- Scope of Generic Noun Phrases and Its Correlation with the Verb Meaning in Russian -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Predicates of Change and Conservation of State and the Problem of Coreferentiality -- 3 Coreferentiality of Generic Noun Phrases -- 4 Scope of the Genericity Quantifier -- 5 Conclusion: Lexicographic Implications -- Valency and Underlying Structure: An Alternative View on Dependency -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Dependency Syntax and Underlying Structure -- 3 Topic-Focus Articulation -- 4 Status of Underlying Structure -- 5 Lexical and Grammatical Information -- 6 Specification of Underlying Representations -- A Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase- Structure Grammars, with Special Consideration of Word- Order Phenomena -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Dependency, Phrase Structure and the Lexicon.

3 Formal Aspects of Word Order Variation -- 3.1 Computational Properties of Dependency Grammars -- 3.2 Word Order Rules and Non-Projectivity -- 3.3 Embedded Wh-Words in English -- 3.4 Embedded Clauses in Dutch -- 3.5 Localizing Syntactic Rules -- 4 Conclusion -- Subject Index -- Name Index.