The Logical-Semantic Structure of Legislative Sentences
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2009
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Instytut Językoznawstwa Wydział Neofilologii, UAM
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This 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.
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legislative language, legal norms, predicate-argument structure, semantic roles
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Comparative Legilinguistics, vol. 1, 2009, pp. 73-87.