Linguistic well-formedness of semantic structures

• Autores: Lidija Iordanskaja, Igor Mel'Cuk
• Localización: Proceedings [of the] Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory [Recurso electrónico] / David Beck (ed. lit.), Kim Gerdes (ed. lit.), Jasmina Milicevic (ed. lit.), Alain Polguère (ed. lit.), 2009, ISBN 978-2-9811149-0-7, págs. 177-187
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper formulates the problem of language-specific constraints on linguistically well-formed Semantic Structures: how can we draw a borderline between semantically well-formed and illformed sentences, and how can we tell lexical incongruence from semantic ill-formedness? The constraints that determine semantic ill-formedness in a given language are based on a simple criterion: If the meaning of a linguistically anomalous sentence can be expressed by a linguistically correct paraphrase, then the anomaly is not semantic; otherwise, it is semantic. Several relevant examples (in English, French and Russian) are analyzed; a sketch of a typology of semantic constraints within the Meaning-Text framework is proposed. We also define the distinction between extralinguistic and linguistic well-formedness of SemSs and propose a calculus of possible cases.