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Title Signal, meaning, and message : perspectives on sign-based linguistics / edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy, Nancy Stern.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 413 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in functional and structural linguistics, 0165-7712 ; v. 48
Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 48. 0165-7712
Note Papers originally presented at Columbia School linguistics conferences.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents (What) do noun class markers mean? / Ellen Contini-Morava -- Rethinking the place of statistics in Columbia School analysis / Joseph Davis -- The linguistic sign in its paradigmatic context : autonomy revisited / Mark J. Elson -- A surpassingly simple analysis / Joseph Davis -- Serbo-Croatian Deixis : balancing attention with difficulty in processing / Radmila J. Gorup -- Do-one sign, one meaning? / Walter Hirtle -- Data, comprehensiveness, monosemy / Charles Ruhl -- Phonology as human behavior : initial consonant clusters across languages / Yishai Tobin -- Celtic sense in Saxon garb / Michael P. Wherrity -- Problems of aspiration in modern standard Urdu / Abdul Azim -- Cognitive and semiotic modes of explanation in functional grammar / Alan Huffman -- The future of a minimalist linguistics in a maximalist world / Robert S. Kirsner -- Saussurean anti-nomenclaturism in gramatical analysis : a comparative theoretical perspective / Ricardo Otheguy.
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Summary This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic pronouns; English auxiliary do; Italian pronouns egli and lui; the Celtic-influenced use of on (e.g., 'he played a trick on me'); a monosemic analysis of the English verb break. A second set deals with general theoretical issues: a solution to the problem that noun class markers (e.g. Swahili) pose for sign-based linguistics; the approp.
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Subject Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Semiotics -- Congresses.
Semiotics.
Explanation (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Explanation (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Reid, Wallis Hoch, 1941-
Otheguy, Ricardo, 1945-
Stern, Nancy, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Signal, meaning, and message. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2002 1588112896 (DLC) 2002074770 (OCoLC)50123169
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