Toward a calculus of meaning : studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c1996.
Description:xxvii, 432 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 43
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2609834
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Other authors / contributors:Andrews, Edna, 1958-
Tobin, Y.
ISBN:1556192681 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Contributors
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. I: Theoretical and Methodological Overview
  • 4. 1. Phoneme and Morpheme and the sign Nature of Language
  • 5. 2. Phonological Markedness and a Plea for useful Linguistics
  • 6. 3. Remarks on the Semantic features of Cases and Prepositions as Related to Syntax
  • 7. 4. The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings
  • 8. II: Studies in Russian and Slavic Languages
  • 9. 1. Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian
  • 10. 2. Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems
  • 11. 3. The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes
  • 12. 4. Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and Their relationship to Markedness
  • 13. 5. Deixis in Time and Space
  • 14. 6. A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition in the East Slavic Substantive (PluralParadigms)
  • 15. III: Applications to Other Languages, Language Families, and Aphasia
  • 16. 1. "Things" in a Noun Class Language
  • 17. 2. Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech
  • 18. 3. The Five Deictics of Lak
  • 19. 4. Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic
  • 20. 5. Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory
  • 21. 6. The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production abd Comprehension of LocativePrepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia
  • 22. Name Index
  • 23. Subject Index