Toward a Calculus of Meaning

1. Contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. I: Theoretical and Methodological Overview; 4. 1. Phoneme and Morpheme and the sign Nature of Language (by Schooneveld, Cornelis H. van); 5. 2. Phonological Markedness and a Plea for useful Linguistics (by Liberman, Anatoly); 6. 3. Remarks on the Semantic features of Cases and Prepositions as Related to Syntax (by Sgall, Petr); 7. 4. The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings (by Kirsner, Robert S.); 8. II: Studies in Russian and Slavic Languages; 9. 1. Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian: Markedness as a Semiotic Principle (by Andrews, Edna); 10. 2. Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems (by Feinberg, Lawrence E.); 11. 3. The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes (by Sperling, Annie Joly); 12. 4. Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and Their relationship to Markedness (by Feldstein, Ronald F.); 13. 5. Deixis in Time and Space: The Fate of the Russian Demonstrativessej (by Dolgova, Irina); 14. 6. A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition in the East Slavic Substantive (Plural Paradigms) (by Pugh, Stefan M.); 15. III: Applications to Other Languages, Language Families, and Aphasia; 16. 1. "Things" in a Noun Class Language: Semantic Functions of Grammatical Agreement in Swahili (by Contini-Morava, Ellen); 17. 2. Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech (by Fennell, Barbara A.); 18. 3. The Five Deictics of Lak (by Friedman, Victor A.); 19. 4. Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic (by Fradkin, Robert); 20. 5. Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory: The Modern Hebrew Verb (by Tobin, Yishai); 21. 6. The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production abd Comprehension of Locative Prepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia (by Leikin, Mark); 22. Name Index; 23. Subject Index