Book Description:
In this book, the author provides a brief introduction to a completely new theory in semantics, Operational Semantics (OS), which concerns the meanings of the basic linguistic elements that are indispensable for any linguistic expression, that is, mainly the “grammatical” words and, in the large number of languages that have a more or less rich morphology, almost all morphemes. OS differs significantly from other existing theories.

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Table of Contents:
Introduction i-x

1. The origins of Operational Semantics, pp.1-2

2. The fundamental theses of Operational Semantics, pp.3-12

3. The elemental or basic mental operations, pp.13-16

4. Examples of analysis of fundamental mental categories, pp.17-36

5. The correlational theory of thought, pp.37-46

6. The grammatical terms according to Operational Semantics, pp.47-54

7. Analyses of the other fundamental mental categorie, pp.55-94

8. Final Considerations on the Analyses of Mental Categories. pp.95-110

9. Possible practical applications of Operational Semantics: A New Kind of Machine Translation Program, pp.111-114

Conclusion, pp.115-116

Index, pp.127-129