Iconicity in Syntax Proceedings of a Symposium on Iconicity in Syntax, Stanford, June 14-6, 1983

Haiman, John (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0915027313 / ISBN 13: 9780915027316

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Co, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1985

About this Item

402 pages; 6 x 9" TSL series, Volume 6. Some marginalia and underlining in pencil; wear to spine and board edges and corners; stamp on first page; bump to top spine edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Iconicity in Syntax Proceedings of a Symposium on Iconicity in Syntax, Stanford, June 14-6, 1983
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915027313
• ISBN 13: 9780915027316
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: very good-

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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.