The book explores some basic concepts of various areas of linguistics: the axiomatics of phonology, the definition of the notion of grammatical category, the problem of lexicographic description of functional words (includes a dictionary of Russian indeclinable lexemes), model-theoretic lexical semantics and the question of semantic primitives, such as ‘believe’, ’think’, ‘know’. In each chapter the reader will find a refreshingly new approach to classical problems of linguistics.
For students and researches in linguists.