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Toward a calculus of meaning : studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis
- Title
- Toward a calculus of meaning : studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis / edited by Edna Andrews, Yishai Tobin.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., [1996], ©1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxvii, 432 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 43
- Uniform Title
- Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 43.
- Subject
- Note
- Based on several papers presented at an international symposium on general linguistics with an emphasis on the topic, "Towards a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features, and Deixis" held at Duke University in Durham, N.C., October 12-14, 1990.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction / Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin -- Phoneme and Morpheme and the Sign Nature of Language / Cornelis H. van Schooneveld -- Phonological Markedness and a Plea for Useful Linguistics / Anatoly Liberman -- Remarks on the Semantic Features of Cases and Prepositions as Related to Syntax / Petr Sgall, Alla Bemova and Eva Hajicova -- The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings / Robert S. Kirsner -- Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian: Markedness as a Semiotic Principle / Edna Andrews -- Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems / Lawrence E. Feinberg -- The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes / Annie Joly Sperling -- Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and Their Relationship to Markedness / Ronald F. Feldstein -- Deixis in Time and Space: The Fate of the Russian Demonstrativesej / Irina Dolgova and Elena Maksimova --
- A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition in the East Slavic Substantive (Plural Paradigms) / Stefan M. Pugh -- "Things" in a Noun Class Language: Semantic Functions of Grammatical Agreement in Swahili / Ellen Contini-Morava -- Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech / Barbara A. Fennell -- The Five Deictics of Lak / Victor A. Friedman -- Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic / Robert Fradkin -- Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory: The Modern Hebrew Verb / Yishai Tobin -- The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production and Comprehension of Locative Prepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia / Mark W. Leikin.
- ISBN
- 1556192681 (U.S.) (alk. paper)
- 9027215529 (Eur.)
- LCCN
- 96037217
- OCLC
- ocm35848904
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries