Frontmatter -- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH VERSION -- PREFACE TO THE ROMANIAN VERSION -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter I. CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE TRANSFORMATIONAL SEMANTIC THEORY -- Chapter II. THE BASIC FORM OF A SEMANTIC SYSTEM S -- Chapter III. SYSTEM S IN RELATION TO KERNEL SENTENCES -- Chapter IV. TRANSLATION FROM NATURAL LANGUAGES INTO S -- Chapter V. MEANING POSTULATES IN S -- Chapter VI. POSSIBILITIES OF CHARACTERIZING L IN TERMS OF S -- Chapter VII. CLOSING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- AUTHORS' INDEX