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Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller. 2004. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 388 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Columbia School approach | English | form/content analysis | generic functionalism | German | grammaticalization theory | Guarani | Hebrew | Hualapai | Korean | Macedonian | Mandarin | maximalist grammar | minimalist linguistics | Polish | Russian | semiotics | Serbian | sign-oriented linguistics | Spanish | Urdu | Yaqui
ISBN
902721560X
Abstract
This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive Grammar and the particular sign-based approach to language known as the Columbia School. While they share certain basic assumptions, the “maximalist” CG and the “minimalist” CS differ both theoretically and methodologically. Given that philosophers from Mill to Kuhn to Feyerabend have stressed the importance to any discipline of dialogue between opposing views, the dialogue begun here cannot fail to bear fruit. The second kind of dialogue is that among several sign-based approaches themselves and also between them and two competitors: grammaticalization theory and generic functionalism. Topics range from phonology to discourse. Analytical problems are taken from a wide range of languages including English, German, Guarani, Hebrew, Hualapai, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Urdu, and Yaqui.
(Publisher Book Description)
Introduction
Robert S. Kirsner
I. Cognitive Grammar
Form, meaning, and behavior: The Cognitive Grammar analysis of double subject constructions
Ronald W. Langacker
Michael B. Smith
II. Theoretical issues in classical sign-based linguistics
Monosemy, homonymy and polysemy
Wallis Reid
On the relationship between form and grammatical meaning in the linguistic sign
Mark J. Elson
Revisiting the gap between meaning and message
Joseph Davis
III. Analyses on the level of the classic linguistic sign
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Bob de Jonge
A sign-based analysis of English pronouns in conjoined expressions
Nancy Stern
Semantic oppositions in the Hebrew verb system
Noah Oron and Yishai Tobin
Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama
IV. Below and above the level of the sign
Interaction of physiology and communication in the make-up and distribution of stops in Lucknow Urdu
Shabana Hameed
Yishai Tobin
Ricardo Otheguy, Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller and Eulalia Canals
Word-order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a direct object, and an adverb: The interaction of syntactic, cognitive, pragmatic, and prosodic features
Francisco Ocampo
Estrategias discursivas como parámetros para el análisis lingüístico
Angelita MartinezI