Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis

Author:   Edna Andrews (Duke University) ,  Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   43
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9789027215529


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   31 December 1996
Format:   Hardback
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Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis


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Taken from a symposium held in honour of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld, the papers in this volume focus on invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. The specific approach presented in this work has its origins and inspirations in the theoretical and methodological paradigm of European Structuralism, the sign-oriented legacy of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce, and the functional and communication-oriented approach of the Prague School.

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Author:   Edna Andrews (Duke University) ,  Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   43
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9789027215529


ISBN 10:   9027215529
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   31 December 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. I: Theoretical and Methodological Overview; 4. 1. Phoneme and Morpheme and the sign Nature of Language (by Schooneveld, Cornelis H. van); 5. 2. Phonological Markedness and a Plea for useful Linguistics (by Liberman, Anatoly); 6. 3. Remarks on the Semantic features of Cases and Prepositions as Related to Syntax (by Sgall, Petr); 7. 4. The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings (by Kirsner, Robert S.); 8. II: Studies in Russian and Slavic Languages; 9. 1. Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian: Markedness as a Semiotic Principle (by Andrews, Edna); 10. 2. Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems (by Feinberg, Lawrence E.); 11. 3. The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes (by Sperling, Annie Joly); 12. 4. Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and Their relationship to Markedness (by Feldstein, Ronald F.); 13. 5. Deixis in Time and Space: The Fate of the Russian Demonstrativessej (by Dolgova, Irina); 14. 6. A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition in the East Slavic Substantive (Plural Paradigms) (by Pugh, Stefan M.); 15. III: Applications to Other Languages, Language Families, and Aphasia; 16. 1. Things in a Noun Class Language: Semantic Functions of Grammatical Agreement in Swahili (by Contini-Morava, Ellen); 17. 2. Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech (by Fennell, Barbara A.); 18. 3. The Five Deictics of Lak (by Friedman, Victor A.); 19. 4. Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic (by Fradkin, Robert); 20. 5. Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory: The Modern Hebrew Verb (by Tobin, Yishai); 21. 6. The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production abd Comprehension of Locative Prepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia (by Leikin, Mark); 22. Name Index; 23. Subject Index

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