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Item The Logical-Semantic Structure of Legislative Sentences(Instytut Językoznawstwa Wydział Neofilologii, UAM, 2009) Deschamps, Karen; Smessaert, HansThis article analyses the logical-semantic structure of legislative sentences from a linguistic point-of-view. First, it is examined which elements constitute the meaning of legislative sentences. The following norm elements will be discussed: legal modality, norm subject, act, conditions of application, time and space, norm authority and negation. In the second part of the article, the logical-semantic relations between these elements are analysed. Following Bowers (1989), these logical-semantic relations are represented in a predicate-argument structure on diff erent levels.