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Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983
Edited by John Haiman
[Typological Studies in Language 6] 1985
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Introduction1
Part I: Motivation
Diagrammatic iconicity in stem-inflection relations11
Temporal sequence and Chinese word order49
Symmetry73
The inherent iconism of intonation97
Observations and speculations on subjectivity109
The iconicity of the universal categories “noun” and “verb”151
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Part II: Isomorphism and automorphism
Iconicity, isomorphism, and non-arbitrary coding in syntax187
The Child as a linguistic icon-maker221
Iconicity and grammatical meaning249
some iconic relationships among place, time, and discourse deixis271
Conditional markers289
Part III: Competing motivations
“oats” and “wheat”: the fallacy of arbitrariness311
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Competing motivations343
The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto-Bruman: a case study in motivated change367
Index of Languages391
Index of Names395
Index of Topics401


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