Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes : : The Human Dimension / / ed. by Marge E. Landsberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Allott, Robin,; Askedal, John O.,; Birdsong, David,; Bouissac, Paul,; Cooper, William E.,; Croft, Lee Β.,; Danesi, Marcel,; Dotter, Franz,; Fónagy, Ivan,; Greenberg, Joseph H.,; Kasher, Asa,; Klouda, Gayle V.,; Landsberg, Marge E.,; Langendonck, Willy Van,; Loncke, Filip,; Makkai, Adam,; McNeill, David,; Neils, Jean,; Newfield, Madeleine,; Quertinmont, Sophie,; Rolfe, Leonard,; Schooneveld, Cornelis H. van,; Schveiger, Paul,; Thompson, Sandra A.,; Tobin, Yishai,; Waugh, Linda R.,; Wierzbicka, Anna,
• HerausgeberIn: Landsberg, Marge E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Other title: I-IV --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I Syntactic iconicity in language --; Iconicity in the basic serialization rules of Modern German --; Iconicity, markedness, and processing constraints in frozen locutions --; Nonarbitrariness and iconicity: Coding possibilities --; On language internal iconicity --; Semantic constraints on phonologically independent freezes --; Categories of word order iconicity --; Homo loquens as "sender-receiver" (i.e., transceiver) and the raison d'être of sememic, lexemic and morphemic prefabs in natural language structures and language use --; Deixis as an iconic element of syntax --; A binary approach to iconicity in word order --; The iconicity of "dative shift" in English: Considerations from information flow in discourse --; The iconicity of focus and existence in Modern Hebrew --; Iconicity in the lexicon and its relevance for a theory of morphology --; Adjectives vs. verbs: The iconicity of part-of-speech membership --; Part II Syntactic iconicity in literature --; Triplicity and textual iconicity: Russian literature through a triangular prism --; The iconicity of metaphor --; Iconicity of expressive syntactic transformations --; Part III Syntactic iconicity in psychology --; Motor theory of language in relation to syntax --; The psychological basis of syntactic iconicity --; Spatial structure as a syntactical or a cognitive operation: Evidence from signing and nonsigning children --; Relationship between language and motor action revisited --; Preservation of syntactic icons in Alzheimer's disease --; Aphasia and syntactic iconicity --; Part IV Syntactic iconicity in philosophy --; Syntactic iconicity and connectionist models of language and cognition --; Pragmatics and iconicity --; Index of subjects --; Index of names
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110882926; 9783110636895
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110882926
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Marge E. Landsberg.