Toward a calculus of meaning : studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis / edited by Edna Andrews, Yishai Tobin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrews, Edna, 1958-

Tobin, Y.

Series:

Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 43.

Studies in functional and structural linguistics, 0165-7712 ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markedness (Linguistics).

Distinctive features (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Deixis.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which represent a very specific way of defining and viewing language and linguistics. The specific approach presented in this volume has its origins and inspirations in the theoretical and methodological paradigm of European Structuralism in general, and the sign-oriented legacy of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charle

Contents:

CONTENTS; Contributors; Introduction; I. Theoretical and Methodological Overview; Phoneme and Morpheme and the Sign Nature of Language; Phonological Markedness and a Plea for Useful Linguistics; Remarks on the Semantic Features of Cases and Prepositions; The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings; II. Studies in Russian and Slavic Languages; Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian: Markedness as a Semiotic Principle; Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems; The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes

Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and Thir Relation to MarkednessDeixis in Time and Space: The Fate of the Russian Demonstrative sej; A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition in the East Slavic Substantive (Plural Paradigms); III. Applications to Other Languages, Language Families and Aphasia; ""Things"" in a Noun Class Language:; Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech; The Five Deictics of Lak; Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic; Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory: The Modern Hebrew Verb

The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production and Comprehension of Locative Prepositions in Different Forms of AphasiaName Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613234261

1-283-23426-2

90-272-8238-2

OCLC:

745866939