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Meaning as explanation : advances in linguistic sign theory / edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Barbara Sussman Goldberg ; with the assistance of Robert S. Kirsner.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Columbia School Conference on Linguistics (2nd : 1991 : University of Virginia)
- Series:
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 84
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).
- Semiotics--Congresses.
- Semiotics.
- Functionalism (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (500 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2010
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Meaning As Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs ; 84).
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: On linguistic sign theory / Contini-Morava, Ellen
- Part I Issues of theory and methodology
- Theory / Diver, William
- Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory / Reid, Wallis
- Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses / Hirtle, Walter
- Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis / Gvozdanović, Jadranka
- The purpose of a grammatical analysis / Huffman, Alan
- When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens / Otheguy, Ricardo
- Part II Deixis
- Deixis from a cognitive point of view / Janssen, Theo A. J. M.
- Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function / Leonard, Robert A.
- Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives / Aoyama, Takashi
- Part III Lexical meaning
- Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited / Tobin, Yishai
- Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon / Andrews, Edna
- Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse
- The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish / Goldberg, Barbara Sussman
- Conversational focus / Klein-Andreu, Flora
- Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness / Davis, Joseph
- Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish / Gorokhova, Elena
- Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences / Yumin, Cheng
- Author index
- Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Chiefly papers presented at the 2nd International Columbia School Conference on Linguistics, which was held at the University of Virginia in 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110907575
- 3110907577
- OCLC:
- 843635276
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