Robert A. Leonard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert A. Leonard plays a role.
Articles
2006 Meaning in nonlinguistic systems: Observations, remarks, and hypotheses on food, architecture, and honor in Kenya Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 309–334 | Article
This article extends the boundaries of Columbia School linguistic semantic theory by applying its analytical constructs to nonlinguistic behaviors, where, as in language, there exist systematicity and arbitrariness: food; construction of social and gender identity; and use of architectural,… read more
2006 A semantic analysis of Swahili suffix li Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 223–237 | Article
This Columbia School analysis of the Swahili suffix li rests on the distinction between meaning and message, as the proposed hypothesis does not simply categorize message types as previous analyses have done, but rather posits a single meaning which accounts for the various messages to which li… read more