Indexicality : : The Role of Indexing in Language Structure and Language Change / / ed. by Peter Juul Nielsen, María Sol Sansiñena.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Henning,; Diewald, Gabriele,; Gaeta, Livio,; Heltoft, Lars,; Jensen, Eva Skafte,; Masini, Francesca,; Mauri, Caterina,; Nemo, François,; Nielsen, Peter Juul,; Politt, Katja,; Sansiñena, María Sol,
• HerausgeberIn: Nielsen, Peter Juul,; Sansiñena, María Sol,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 377
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 333 p.)

The book offers the first full-scale focused treatment of linguistic indexicality as a tool for analysis and explanation of the organization of linguistic structures. The book demonstrates the application of the concept of indexicality in the description of a broad range of linguistic phenomena, fro...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• 1 Indexes in language and linguistics
• Part I: Theoretical issues
• 2 On the cost of indexicality
• 3 Evolutionary steps for linguistic signs: The place of indexicality
• 4 Indexicality in the minimal/non-minimal (or less minimal) sign relationship
• Part II: Synchronic studies
• 5 Multi-layered indexicality: When proper names become categories
• 6 Paradigmaticization as indexicalization: Medio-passive sich lassen as a member of the paradigm of voice in German
• 7 Domain-straddling indexicality – the Greenlandic causative
• Part III: Diachronic studies
• 8 What’s in an -n? The reinterpretation of perfect participle -n in Danish
• 9 From symbol to index: The semiotic harmonisation of the Danish free indirect object
• Index