Igor Mel’čuk

Dados Biográficos

ID2912110
NOMEIgor Mel’čuk
PRENOMESIgor
SOBRENOMEMel’čuk
ASSINATURAMEL’ČUK I
AFILIAÇÕESUniversité de Montréal
ORCID0000-0002-4520-0554
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES21
TOTAL COMO AUTOR47
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1970
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
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  • Gera Tseitin—As I Remember Him

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čukCHAPTERUncertainty Quantification and…2026

  • The cleft construction

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čukARTICLERussian Journal of Linguistics2025

    The paper addresses the task of systematizing linguistic notions and corresponding terminology: it presents a rigorous definition of the notion of cleft construction. The study is carried out in the theoretical framework of the Meaning-Text approach. The substantive and formal requirements on a rigorous linguistic definition are formulated. The cleft construction in English is described as a basis for the definition: the semantic [SemR], the deep…

  • Voice, impersonal construction, and zero lexeme

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čukARTICLEFolia Linguistica2025

    The paper considers a relatively rare verbal syntactic construction found in East Sakhalin Ainu and in Lingala: an active form of a transitive verb governs simultaneously a direct object and an agentive complement, has no overt syntactic subject and is in the 3rd person plural. In order to characterize this verb form, three sets of formal linguistic notions are introduced and described: voice (with a calculus of logically possible voice grammemes…

  • Russian phrases of the type {rejs ’flight’} London-Berlin

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čukARTICLERussian Linguistics2025

  • Russian reduplicative surface-syntactic relations in the perspective of general syntax

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čukARTICLERussian Journal of Linguistics2022

    The paper considers lexical reduplications in Russian in the perspective of general syntax. The goal is to define and fully characterize special Russian surface-syntactic relations [SSyntRels], that is, the reduplicative SSyntRels, which appear exclusively in syntactic idioms formed by lexical reduplications. The syntactic operation REDUPL is defined, and several reduplicative SSyntRels are introduced. A deductive calculus thereof is proposed, ba…

  • Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax

    Igor Mel’čuk, Igor Mel'ČukBOOKTen Studies in Dependency Syntax2021

    The monograph presents the Meaning-Text approach applied to the domain of syntax from a typological angle; it deals with several long-standing syntactic problems on the basis of a dependency description. Its content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction: The Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic model, underlying the subsequent discussion. I. Surface-syntactic relations in the lang…

  • Names of Feelings in the Dictionary

    Open AccessLidija Iordanskaja, Igor Mel’čukARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021Referências: 5

    The paper deals with words that denote feelings rather than with feelings as such. It proposes the strictly lexicographic description of some names of ‘psyche-induced feelings1’ [= ‘feelings2’], such as joy or amazement, in contrast to the names of ‘body-induced feelings1’ [= ‘sensations’], such as hunger and tiredness. This description is based on the semantic prime ‘feel1’, which itself is explicated through a naïve model of the human psyche. O…

  • The Russian idiom ⌜kto-kto, a…⌝

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čukARTICLERussian Linguistics2020

  • The Author’s Foreword

    Igor Mel’čukCHAPTERLanguage2019

    My dear reader!This small book, which is now in your hands, represents a desperate attempt to introduce you to a science that is of crucial importance for understanding the world and Mankind, but-in spite of this-is little known to the public.I am referring to linguistics (from Lat.lingua 'language'), the science of human language.As I write this paragraph, I realize that it raises (at least) three questions that require immediate answers

  • Semantics in Syntax

    Lidija Iordanskaja, Igor Mel’čukARTICLEVoprosy Jazykoznanija2019

  • Genitive Adnominal Complements in Russian

    Igor Mel’čukARTICLEVoprosy Jazykoznanija2018

  • Language

    Igor Mel’čuk, David BeckBOOKLanguage2016

  • Dependency in Language

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čuk, Igor Mel'ČukCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Lexical Functions in Lexicographic Description

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čuk, IGOR A MEL’ČUKARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

    Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)

  • The notion of inflection and the expression of nominal gender in Spanish

    Igor Mel’čukARTICLEStudies in Language2013

    The paper discusses the morphological status and the function of Spanish nominal endings -o and -a ( ciel + o ‘sky’ vs. caj + a ‘box’); it is shown that both endings, plus the endings -e and -Ø , are inflectional suffixes that mark, however, not the values of an inflectional category (like nominal number or verbal tense), but the values of a feature of the syntactics of the noun — the nominal gender. The ‘nominal gender’ is defined as a cluster c…

  • Morphological phrasemes and Totonacan verbal morphology

    Open AccessDavid Beck, Igor Mel''Čuk et al.ARTICLELinguistics2011Citada por: 1Referências: 7

    The existence of restricted or phraseologized complex expressions such as clichés, collocations, and idioms (collectively known as phrasemes) is well-known and widely accepted in the domain of multi-word expressions. What is not so widely recognized is the existence of the same type of phraseologized expression at the morphological level — restricted complex morphological expressions, or morphological phrasemes. Morphological phrasemes, found in …

  • La coordination des adjectifs modificateurs en russe et en français

    Open AccessLidija Iordanskaja, Igor Mel’čukARTICLEMeta Journal des traducteurs2010Referências: 1

    Le présent article établit les régularités d’emploi de coordination, par opposition à la codépendance, de deux adjectifs modifiant un nom en français et en russe. La possibilité de coordination par la conjonction française et / russe i est basée sur l’homogénéité des adjectifs ( un regard lourd et morose ), tandis que celle de leur codépendance se base sur leur hétérogénéité ( une voiture rouge fiable ). On distingue l’homogénéité sémantique (ind…

  • Prédicats et quasi-prédicats sémantiques dans une perspective lexicographique

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čuk, Alain PolguereARTICLELidil2008Citada por: 1

    La notion de prédicat sémantique permet de distinguer deux classes de sens lexicaux, ou sémantèmes : 1) les prédicats, qui tous dénotent des faits, au sens le plus large (évènements, actions, activités, états, caractéristiques, relations, etc.), et 2) les noms sémantiques, qui dénotent des entités au sens large (êtres vivants, objets physiques, substances, etc.). Nous nous intéressons tout particulièrement au fait qu'il existe une troisième class…

  • Parties du discours et locutions

    Igor Mel’čuk, Igor Mel'ČukARTICLEBulletin de la Société de…2006

    SOMMAIRE. - 1. Une locution est une unite lexicale, qui doit avoir son propre article de dictionnaire ; dans la structure syntaxique profonde [= SSyntP] d'une phrase, elle occupe un seul noeud, mais correspond a un sous-arbre dans la SSynt de surface [= SSyntS], car a ce niveau, c'est un syntagme. Le probleme se pose alors : comment, dans un dictionnaire grand public, assigner a une locution la partie du discours ? 2. Les parties du discours [= P…

  • Actants in semantics and syntax II

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čuk, Igor MelcukARTICLELinguistics2004Referências: 9

    Part II of the article deals with deep-syntactic and surface-syntactic actants. A deep-syntactic actant slot is defined by its correspondence to a semantic actant slot; a deep-syntactic actant of a lexical unit L either fills a deep-syntactic slot of L or corresponds to a surface-syntactic actant of L. The article discusses the numbering of deep-syntactic actant slots, some problematic cases of such numbering, restrictions on the surface realizat…

  • Actants in semantics and syntax I

    Open AccessIgor Mel’čuk, Igor MelcukARTICLELinguistics2004Referências: 15

    The article characterizes the three types of actants: semantic, deepsyntactic, and surface-syntactic. The discussion, which is carried out in the framework of the meaning-text approach, is based on 1) the distinction between actants and actant slots, as well as 2) an in-depth lexicographic treatment of lexical units involved. Part I of the article deals with semantic actants. The concept of linguistic situation SIT(L), specified by the lexical un…

  • Communicative Organization in Natural Language

    Igor Mel’čuk, Igor Mel'ČukBOOKCommunicative organization in…2001

    The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight logically independent oppositions: 1. Thematicity (Rheme vs. Theme), 2. Givenness (Given vs. Old), 3. Focalization (Focalized vs. Non-Focalized), 4. Perspecti…

  • Cas grammaticaux, construction verbale de base et voix en massaï

    Igor Mel’čuk, Igor Mel'ČukARTICLEBulletin de la Société de…1997

    Dans cet article, mon but est d'effectuer une analyse logique de deux concepts importants de linguistique generale : le CAS et la VOIX, en me basant sur les faits de la langue massai, parlee en Afrique de l'Est (groupe nilotique oriental). Le cas et la voix sont etroitement lies: le cas du nom N marque les differents roles syntaxiques de surface [= SyntS] qu'un groupe nominal [= GN] forme par ce N peut jouer par rapport a son gouverneur, tandis q…

  • Lexical Functions and Lexical Inheritance for Emotion Lexemes in German

    Igor Mel’čuk, Leo WannerCHAPTERLexical Functions in Lexicography…1996

  • Stress in Modern Hebrew Nominal Inflection

    Igor Mel’čuk, Baruch PodolskyARTICLETheoretical Linguistics1996

    Dans le cadre de la theorie sens-texte, les As. proposent un modele formel qui permet d'assigner un accent aux formes nominales en hebreu moderne (HM) a partir de la structure morphologique du mot. Les suffixes nominaux en HM sont divises en suffixes forts, faibles et neutres ; les morphes dominants incluent des racines accentuees et des suffixes forts, et tous les autres morphes sont recessifs. Si la forme du mot contient des morphes dominants, …