Deschamps, KarenSmessaert, Hans2016-02-042016-02-042009Comparative Legilinguistics, vol. 1, 2009, pp. 73-87.2080-5926http://hdl.handle.net/10593/14251This 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.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesslegislative languagelegal normspredicate-argument structuresemantic rolesArtykuł