Language and Meaning
The structural creation of reality
1st Edition
Published on 8. November 2005
XIV, 225 pages
978-90-272-9392-3 (ISBN)
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This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and Russian. The author presents a new and different analysis of these complex topics which proceeds from the levels of form to meaning rather than the traditional and generative methodologies that follow the opposite path from meaning to form. This book will be of interest to all linguists who have ever confronted the controversial question of the interaction between lexical exceptions and grammatical rules. The scope of this volume is rather broad and it compares and contrasts text grammar versus sentence grammar in an innovative way.
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Content
- Language and Meaning
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Saussurean structuralism
- 2. Aspect
- Aspect in Russian
- Aspect in German
- 3. The passive
- The passive in Russian
- The passive in German
- Methodological implications
- 4. Generative grammar
- 4.1. Minimalism
- 4.2. Critique of Minimalism and generative grammar
- 4.3. The equivocation of form and notation
- 4.4. Lexical-Functional Grammar
- 4.5. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
- 4.6. Formal semantics
- 4.7. Connectionism
- 4.8. Steven Pinker as a descriptivist
- 4.9. The mathematical, model-building approach in other disciplines: Physics
- 4.10. Labelling the product
- 5. Tense and irregular verbs
- Irregular verbs in German
- Irregular verbs in Russian
- 6. Text grammar
- 7. The method of lexical exceptions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Glossary of aspect terms
- Name index
- Subject index
- The series Studies In Functional And Structural Linguistics
