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Date:  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:10:06 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:   Signal, Meaning, and Message: Reid et al (eds.)

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Date:  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:10:06 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:   Signal, Meaning, and Message: Reid et al (eds.)

			
Title: Signal, Meaning, and Message
Subtitle: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics
Series Title: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 48
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
	   http://www.benjamins.nl		

Editor: Wallis  Reid
Editor: Ricardo  Otheguy
Editor: Nancy  Stern

Hardback: ISBN: 902721557X, Pages: xxii, 413 pp., Price: EUR 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588112896, Pages: xxii, 413 pp., Price: USD 99.00
			
Abstract:

This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to
emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of
articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific
languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic
pronouns; English auxiliary do; Italian pronouns egli and lui; the
Celtic-influenced use of on (e.g., "he played a trick on me"); a
monosemic analysis of the English verb break. A second set deals with
general theoretical issues: a solution to the problem that noun class
markers (e.g. Swahili) pose for sign-based linguistics; the
appropriateness of statistical tests of significance in text-based
analysis; the word or the morpheme as the locus of paradigmatic
inflectional change; the radical consequences of Saussure's
anti-nomenclaturism for syntactic analysis; the future of "minimalist
linguistics" in a maximalist world. A third set explains phonotactic
patterning in terms of ease of articulation: aspirated and unaspirated
stop consonants in Urdu; initial consonant clusters in more than two
dozen languages. An introduction highlights the theoretical and
analytical points of each article and their relation to the Columbia
School framework. The collection is relevant to cognitive semanticists
and functionalists as well as those working in the sign-based
Jakobsonian and Guillaumist frameworks.


Table of Contents

List of contributors  vii-viii
Introduction  ix-xxi
Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues
(What) do noun class markers mean?
     Ellen Contini-Morava  3-64
Rethinking the Place of Statistics in Columbia School Analysis
     Joseph Davis  65-90
The Linguistic Sign in its Paradigmatic Context: Autonomy Revisited
     Mark J. Elson  91-109
Part II. Sign-Based Linguistic Analyses
A Surpassingly Simple Analysis
     Joseph Davis  113-136
Serbo-Croatian Deixis: Balancing Attention with Difficulty in
Processing
     Radmila J. Gorup  137-155
Do - One Sign, One Meaning?
     Walter Hirtle  157-169
Data, Comprehensiveness, Monosemy
     Charles Ruhl  171-189
Phonology As human Behavior: Initial Consonant Clusters Across
Languages
     Yishai Tobin  191-255
Celtic Sense in Saxon Garb
     Michael P. Wherrity  257-271
Problems of Aspiration in Modern Standard Urdu
     Abdul Azim  273-307
Part III. Columbia School in the Context of 20th Century Linguistics
Cognitive and Semiotic Modes of Explanation in Functional Grammar
     Alan Huffman  311-337
The Future of a Minimalist Linguistics in a Maximalist World
     Robert S. Kirsner  339-371
Saussurean Anti-Nomenclaturism in Grammatical Analysis: A Comparative
Theoretical Perspective
     Ricardo Otheguy  373-403
Index of Names  405
Index of Subjects  409

Lingfield(s): Functional & Systemic Ling (Linguistic Theories)
	      Linguistic Theories
			
Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

			


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