Cognitive And Communicative Approaches To Linguistic Analysis

by Contini-Morava, Ellen; Kirsner, Robert S.; RODRIGUEZ-BACHILLER, BETSY; INTERNATIONAL COLUMBIA SCHOOL CONFERENCE

• ISBN13: 9781588115669
• ISBN10: 1588115666
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(20)
Robert S. Kirsner
Part I: Cognitive Grammar
Form, meaning, and behavior	21	(40)
Ronald W. Langacker
Cataphoric pronouns as mental space designators	61	(32)
Michael B. Smith
Part II: Theoretical issues in classical sign-based linguistics
Monosemy, homonymy and polysemy	93	(38)
Wallis Reid
On the relationship between form and grammatical meaning in the linguistic sign	131	(24)
Mark J. Elson
Revisiting the gap between meaning and message	155	(22)
Joseph Davis
Part III: Analyses on the level of the classic linguistic sign
The givenness of background	177	(28)
Zhuo Jing
The relevance of relevance in linguistic analysis	205	(14)
Bob de Jonge
A sign-based analysis of English pronouns in conjoined expressions	219	(16)
Nancy Stern
Semantic oppositions in the Hebrew verb system	235	(26)
Noah Oron
Yishai Tobin
Grammaticization of `to' and `away'	261	(16)
Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama
Part IV: Below and above the level of the sign
Interaction of physiology and communication in the make-up and distribution of stops in Lucknow Urdu	277	(12)
Shabana Hameed
Between phonology and lexicon	289	(36)
Yishai Tobin
Length of the extra-information phrase as a predictor of word order	325	(16)
Ricardo Otheguy
Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller
Eulalia Canals
Word-order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a direct object, and an adverb	341	(20)
Francisco Ocampo
Estrategias discursivas como parametros para el analisis linguistico	361	(20)
Angelita Martinez
Index of names	381	(3)
Index of subjects	384