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Meaning as Explanation : Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory / ed. by Barbara S. Goldberg, Ellen Contini-Morava.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 84Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (487 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110141221
  • 9783110907575
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.41 410
LOC classification:
  • P126 .M38 1995
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-XII -- Introduction: On linguistic sign theory -- Part I Issues of theory and methodology -- Theory -- Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory -- Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses -- Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis -- The purpose of a grammatical analysis -- When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens -- Part II Deixis -- Deixis from a cognitive point of view -- Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function -- Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives -- Part III Lexical meaning -- Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited -- Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon -- Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse -- The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish -- Conversational focus -- Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness -- Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish -- Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences -- Author index -- Subject index
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I-XII -- Introduction: On linguistic sign theory -- Part I Issues of theory and methodology -- Theory -- Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory -- Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses -- Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis -- The purpose of a grammatical analysis -- When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens -- Part II Deixis -- Deixis from a cognitive point of view -- Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function -- Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives -- Part III Lexical meaning -- Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited -- Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon -- Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse -- The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish -- Conversational focus -- Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness -- Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish -- Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences -- Author index -- Subject index

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