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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (444 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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