Publications

Publication details [#21002]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 1985. Oats and wheat: The fallacy of arbitrariness. In Givón, Talmy. Iconicity, isomorphism and non-arbitrary coding in syntax. In : 187–219. : 311–342.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

arbitrariness | iconicity | meaning

Annotation

An attempt to show that rather than being arbitrary, form classes are semantically motivated, and differences in grammatical behavior reflect iconically differences in meaning.