Iconicity in Syntax
Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983
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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.
[Typological Studies in Language, 6] 1985. vi, 402 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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IntroductionJohn Haiman | p. 1
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Part I: Motivation
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Diagrammatic iconicity in stem-inflection relationsJoan L. Bybee | p. 11
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Temporal sequence and Chinese word orderJames H.-Y. Tai | p. 49
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SymmetryJohn Haiman | p. 73
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The inherent iconism of intonationDwight Bolinger | p. 97
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Observations and speculations on subjectivityRonald W. Langacker | p. 109
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The iconicity of the universal categories “noun” and “verb”Paul J. Hopper and Sandra A. Thompson | p. 151
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Part II: Isomorphism and automorphism
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Iconicity, isomorphism, and non-arbitrary coding in syntaxT. Givón | p. 187
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The Child as a linguistic icon-makerDan I. Slobin | p. 221
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Iconicity and grammatical meaningRobert S. Kirsner | p. 249
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some iconic relationships among place, time, and discourse deixisJoseph H. Greenberg | p. 271
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Conditional markersElizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 289
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Part III: Competing motivations
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“oats” and “wheat”: the fallacy of arbitrarinessAnna Wierzbicka | p. 311
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Competing motivationsJohn W. Du Bois | p. 343
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The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto-Bruman: a case study in motivated changeScott DeLancey | p. 367
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Index of Languages | p. 391
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Index of Names | p. 395
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Index of Topics | p. 401
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