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Arbitrariness and Complex Signs

Author : Tilo Voltz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640238419
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book Arbitrariness and Complex Signs written by Tilo Voltz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Leipzig (Institut für Anglistik), course: Motivation and Arbitrariness in the English Language, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The following essay wants to draw attention to the relation between motivation and ar-bitrariness within complex linguistic signs. Modern linguistics tries to establish motivation within the language system and by this often seems to negotiate arbitrariness. Bolinger claimed in 1980: "Arbitrary and conventional is a fitting description of distinctive sounds, less so of words, even less of sentences, and beyond that scarcely fits at all" (Fischer & Nänny, 1999, p. xxi). Dirven and Verspoor proclaim that "most of the complex forms of lan-guage...are...not arbitrary, but transparent or motivated" (Dirven & Verspoor, p. 21). Motivation is used to construct convincing explanations for sometimes mystified phe-nomena in a language. Motivated by C.S. Peirce's sign system, linguistic signs are recently moved from a box signed 'symbol' into a box signed 'icon'. Language by this is meant to be a more or less predictable act, which is based on translucent regularities and ordering princi-ples. Structural similarities are the basis of motivation, which examines and proclaims ordeing principles in all spheres of the language: phonology, morphology, lexicon and semantics Motivation even obstructs the syntax of a language. Three main ideas underlie the principle of motivation: (i) sequential ordering, (ii) quan-tity and (iii) proximity. Simplified, the ideas can be summarized as follows: (i) arrangement of linguistic elements according to temporal events, like he opened the door and came in or veni, vidi, vici; (ii) the amount of meaning is reflected in the amount of linguistic form, like I go - I went - I had gone or a car - a green car - a green convertible; (iii) conceptual distance is reflected

The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs

Author : Erica C. Garcia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027215707
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs written by Erica C. Garcia and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures are shown to be cognitively motivated, given the meaning of the individual clitics, and the compositional/interpretative routines those meanings motivate. The analysis accounts, in coherent and principled fashion, for the absolute non-occurrence of some clusters, and the interpretation-dependent acceptability of all remaining clitic combinations: cluster acceptability depends on the ease with which the given clitic combination can be processed to yield a congruent message; there is no point in combining clitics whose meanings preclude speedy processing of the cluster. The monograph goes beyond previous work on Spanish clitics in its wealth of data, the range of syntactic phenomena discussed, and its analytic scope.

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics

Author : Chiyo Nishida
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293392
Total Pages : 306 pages
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The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199641641
Total Pages : 961 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology written by Rochelle Lieber and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009), aiming to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters are devoted to theoretical and definitional matters, formal and semantic issues, interdisciplinary connections, and detailed descriptions of derivational processes in a wide range of language families. It presents the reader with the current state of the art in the study of derivational morphology. The handbook begins with an overview and a consideration of definitional matters, distinguishing derivation from inflection on the one hand and compounding on the other. From a formal perspective, the handbook treats affixation (prefixation, suffixation, infixation, circumfixation, etc.), conversion, reduplication, root and pattern and other templatic processes, as well as prosodic and subtractive means of forming new words. From a semantic perspective, it looks at the processes that form various types of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs, as well as evaluatives and the rarer processes that form function words. Chapters are devoted to issues of theory, methodology, the historical development of derivation, and to child language acquisition, sociolinguistic, experimental, and psycholinguistic approaches. The second half of the book surveys derivation in fifteen language families that are widely dispersed in terms of both geographical location and typological characteristics. It ends with a consideration of both areal tendencies in derivation and the issue of universals.

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Total Pages : 484 pages
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Landmarks In Linguistic Thought Volume I

Author : Professor Roy Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134740980
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Landmarks In Linguistic Thought Volume I written by Professor Roy Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By introducing the reader to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought quickly becomes apparent. Each chapter in this accessible book contains a short extract from a `landmark' text followed by a commentary which places the text in its social and intellectual context.The authors, who consider writers from Aristotle to Caxton to Saussure, have fully revised the original edition ofthis text. Complete with two new chapters on Bishop John Wilkins and Frege, a revised preface and updated bibliography, this book will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in the History of Linguistics, or the History of Western Thought.

The Evolution of Language

Author : Erica A Cartmill
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814603643
Total Pages : 592 pages
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Linguistic Arbitrariness According to Saussure

Author : Khawaja Abdullah
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668259917
Total Pages : 4 pages
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Download or read book Linguistic Arbitrariness According to Saussure written by Khawaja Abdullah and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: Ferdinand de Saussure is generally perceived the “father of modern linguistics”. Since he set the investigation on nature of sign. Sign is a combination of signifier (sound pattern) or signified (concept) for example a rose, when I say a rose so rose is a sound pattern “signifier’ and the concept of rose in our mind is “signified’ ’and the nature of sign in language is arbitrary. Arbitrariness of sign means there is no logical or intrinsic relationship between signifier (sound pattern). Or signified (concept). For example in English-speaking society has agreed upon the word “dog” to refer to the four-legged animal with distinct features but in Urdu-speech community society the word “dog” used for a person shows his nature who has done something wrong or committed a crime.

F# for Scientists

Author : Jon Harrop
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118210816
Total Pages : 368 pages
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The Cambridge History of Linguistics

Author : Linda R. Waugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009301993
Total Pages : 1113 pages
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Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

Author : Nathalie Gontier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192543512
Total Pages : 1185 pages
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The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction Set

Author : Kent Norman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118977262
Total Pages : 1040 pages
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Psycholinguistic Research (PLE: Psycholinguistics)

Author : Doris Aaronson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 113447833X
Total Pages : 549 pages
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English Lexicology

Author : Leonhard Lipka
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823349952
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Propagators for Many-particle Systems

Author : Robert Mills
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780677020402
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Functional Explanations in Linguistics

Author : Alain Bossuyt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998830
Total Pages : 675 pages
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