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Indexicality : The Role of Indexing in Language Structure and Language Change / ed. by Peter Juul Nielsen, María Sol Sansiñena.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 377Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 333 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110791174
  • 9783110791556
  • 9783110791433
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.43
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Indexes in language and linguistics -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- 2 On the cost of indexicality -- 3 Evolutionary steps for linguistic signs: The place of indexicality -- 4 Indexicality in the minimal/non-minimal (or less minimal) sign relationship -- Part II: Synchronic studies -- 5 Multi-layered indexicality: When proper names become categories -- 6 Paradigmaticization as indexicalization: Medio-passive sich lassen as a member of the paradigm of voice in German -- 7 Domain-straddling indexicality – the Greenlandic causative -- Part III: Diachronic studies -- 8 What’s in an -n? The reinterpretation of perfect participle -n in Danish -- 9 From symbol to index: The semiotic harmonisation of the Danish free indirect object -- Index
Summary: The book offers the first full-scale focused treatment of linguistic indexicality as a tool for analysis and explanation of the organization of linguistic structures. The book demonstrates the application of the concept of indexicality in the description of a broad range of linguistic phenomena, from the internal workings of morphology via relations within syntactic constructions to lexical and grammatical elements designed to hook on to features outside the clause in the interactional context. The book offers a focused treatment of the general nature of linguistic indexicality in the larger perspective of the semiotics of language, including examinations of domain-straddling indexical functions. It presents studies of the role of indexicality in synchrony and diachrony with descriptive cases from a number of languages from diverse language families and it examines the way indexicality enters into the mechanisms of change, including examinations of semiotic shifts from indexical to symbolic function and vice versa. The book is relevant for researchers and students in historical and synchronic linguistics from a variety of linguistic frameworks with an interest in the role of semiotics in linguistic analysis.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Indexes in language and linguistics -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- 2 On the cost of indexicality -- 3 Evolutionary steps for linguistic signs: The place of indexicality -- 4 Indexicality in the minimal/non-minimal (or less minimal) sign relationship -- Part II: Synchronic studies -- 5 Multi-layered indexicality: When proper names become categories -- 6 Paradigmaticization as indexicalization: Medio-passive sich lassen as a member of the paradigm of voice in German -- 7 Domain-straddling indexicality – the Greenlandic causative -- Part III: Diachronic studies -- 8 What’s in an -n? The reinterpretation of perfect participle -n in Danish -- 9 From symbol to index: The semiotic harmonisation of the Danish free indirect object -- Index

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The book offers the first full-scale focused treatment of linguistic indexicality as a tool for analysis and explanation of the organization of linguistic structures. The book demonstrates the application of the concept of indexicality in the description of a broad range of linguistic phenomena, from the internal workings of morphology via relations within syntactic constructions to lexical and grammatical elements designed to hook on to features outside the clause in the interactional context. The book offers a focused treatment of the general nature of linguistic indexicality in the larger perspective of the semiotics of language, including examinations of domain-straddling indexical functions. It presents studies of the role of indexicality in synchrony and diachrony with descriptive cases from a number of languages from diverse language families and it examines the way indexicality enters into the mechanisms of change, including examinations of semiotic shifts from indexical to symbolic function and vice versa. The book is relevant for researchers and students in historical and synchronic linguistics from a variety of linguistic frameworks with an interest in the role of semiotics in linguistic analysis.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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