Manfred Bierwisch

List of John Benjamins publications for which Manfred Bierwisch plays a role.

Articles

Bierwisch, Manfred 2018 Roman JakobsonHandbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 159–172 | Chapter
Bierwisch, Manfred 2014 The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of viewMinimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks (eds.), pp. 392–415 | Article
The problem pursued in this paper concerns the role of Arbitrariness in linguistic expressions. Saussurean Arbitrariness is due to the conventional sound-meaning-relation of linguistic expressions. It is systematically projected (but not reduced) from Lexical Items to linguistic expressions of… read more