Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes
The Human Dimension
1st Edition
Published on 24. June 2011
IX, 444 pages
978-3-11-088292-6 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Part I. Syntactic iconicity in language
- Iconicity in the basic serialization rules of Modern German
- Iconicity, markedness, and processing constraints in frozen locutions
- Nonarbitrariness and iconicity: Coding possibilities
- On language internal iconicity
- Semantic constraints on phonologically independent freezes
- Categories of word order iconicity
- Homo loquens as "sender-receiver" (i.e., transceiver) and the raison d'être of sememic, lexemic and morphemic prefabs in natural language structures and language use
- Deixis as an iconic element of syntax
- A binary approach to iconicity in word order
- The iconicity of "dative shift" in English: Considerations from information flow in discourse
- The iconicity of focus and existence in Modern Hebrew
- Iconicity in the lexicon and its relevance for a theory of morphology
- Adjectives vs. verbs: The iconicity of part-of-speech membership
- Part II. Syntactic iconicity in literature
- Triplicity and textual iconicity: Russian literature through a triangular prism
- The iconicity of metaphor
- Iconicity and expressive syntactic transformations
- Part III. Syntactic iconicity in psychology
- Motor theory of language in relation to syntax
- The psychological basis of syntactic iconicity
- Spatial structure as a syntactical or a cognitive operation: Evidence from signing and nonsigning children
- Relationships between language and motor action revisited
- Preservation of syntactic icons in Alzheimer's disease
- Aphasia and syntactic iconicity
- Part IV. Syntactic iconicity in philosophy
- Syntactic iconicity and connectionist models of language and cognition
- Pragmatics and iconicity
- Index of subjects
- Index of names
