Iconicity in Syntax (Typological Studies in Language) - Hardcover

 
9789027228727: Iconicity in Syntax (Typological Studies in Language)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9027228728 ISBN 13: 9789027228727
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985

Synopsis

The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other because the different conceptual domains they represent are thought of in the same way. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with aspects of motivation, the ways in which the linguistic form is a diagram of conceptual structure, and homologous with it in interesting ways. Most of the papers in Part II focus on isomorphism, the tendency to associate a single invariant meaning with each single invariant form. The papers in Part III deal with the apparent arbitrariness that arises from competing motivations.

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Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9027228728
ISBN 13 
9789027228727
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
408
Editor
Haiman John

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9780915027316: Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983 (Typological Studies in Language)

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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985
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