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Wallace, Stephen. 1982. Figure and ground: The interrelationship of linguistic categories. In Hopper, Paul J., ed. Tense-Aspect: Between semantics and pragmatics. Containing the contributions to a symposium on tense and aspect, held at UCLA, May 1979. John Benjamins. pp. 201–223.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

figure vs. ground | unit of linguistic expression

Annotation

W. suggests that the distinction made in perceptual psychology between figure and ground provides an interesting and usefull parallel which may help to elucidate the meanings of linguistic categories and their interrelationships (with special reference to verbal categories).