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Lingvistički model „značenje – tekst“ kao okvir za opis izričaja u prirodnim jezicima
Linguistic Model „Meaning – Text“ as a Framework for Analyses of Utterances in Natural Languages

Author(s): Ismail Palić
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Philology
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: meaning - text; natural language; phonology; semantic component; syntactic component;

Summary/Abstract: In this article we tried to present the Meaning-Text Linguistic model (MTM). As a general framework for analyses of natural languages, this model was proposed about forty years ago. It was developed within the Russian school of dependency grammar by nearly twenty linguists led by A. K. Žolkovskij and I.A. Mel'čuk. We find this model very good and applicable even to the structure of the Bosnian language. However, Bosnian (Croatian and Serbian) linguists paid no attention to it. In the first part of this article we were concentrated on the main postulates of MTM. In the second part our attention is directed to two main components of MTM: semantic component (i.e. semantic representation) and syntactic component (i.e. deep-syntactic and surface-syntactic representation). On a set of selected examples we tried to show how it works.

  • Issue Year: 21/2003
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-22
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bosnian