Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes : The Human Dimension

Name: Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes : The Human Dimension
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Hardcover Published: 1995
ISBN: 9783110142273
Number Of Pages: 453
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Introduction	p. 1
Iconicity in the basic serialization rules of Modern German	p. 13
Iconicity, markedness, and processing constraints in frozen locations	p. 31
Nonarbitrariness and iconicity: Coding possibilities	p. 47
On language internal iconicity	p. 57
Semantic constraints on phonologically independent freezes	p. 65
Categories of word order iconicity	p. 79
Homo Ioquens as "sender-receiver" (i.e., transceiver) and the raison d'etre of sememic, lexemic and morphemic prefabs in natural language structures and language use	p. 91
Deixis as an iconic element of syntax	p. 117
A binary approach to iconicity in word order	p. 131
The iconicity of "dative shift" in English: Considerations from information flow in discourse	p. 155
The iconicity of focus and existence in Modern Hebrew	p. 177
Iconicity in the lexicon and its relevance for a theory of morphology	p. 189
Adjectives vs. verbs: The iconicity of part-of-speech membership	p. 223
Triplicity and textual iconicity: Russian literature through a triangular prism	p. 249
The iconicity of metaphor	p. 265
Iconicity and expressive syntactic transformations	p. 285
Motor theory of language in relation to syntax	p. 307
The psychological basis of syntactic iconicity	p. 331
Spatial structure as a syntactical or a cognitive operation: Evidence from signing and nonsigning children	p. 343
Relationships between language and motor action revisited	p. 351
Preservation of syntactic icons in Alzheimer's disease	p. 365
Aphasia and synctactic iconicity	p. 373
Syntactic iconicity and connectionist models of language and cognition	p. 393
Pragmatics and iconicity	p. 419
Index of subjects	p. 433
Index of names	p. 443
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ISBN: 9783110142273
ISBN-10: 3110142279
Series: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
Audience: General
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 453
Published: 1995
Country of Publication: DE
Dimensions (cm): 23.39 x 15.6 x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.81