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Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change

Author : Janice Aski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501500988
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change by : Janice Aski

Download or read book Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change written by Janice Aski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latter. Based on an exhaustive analysis of data collected from medieval Florentine and Tuscan texts we offer a novel analysis of the rise of the variable order, the transition from one order to the other, and the demise of the alternation that relies primarily on iconicity and analogy.The bookemploys exophoric pragmatic iconicity, a language-external iconic relationship based on similarity between linguistic structure and the speaker/writer's conceptualization of reality, and endophoric iconicity, a language-internal iconic relationship where the iconic ground is construed between linguistic signs and structures. Analogy is viewed as a productive process that generalizes patterns or extends grammatical rules to formally similar structures, and obtains the form of the analogical relationship between the masculine singular definite article and the third person singular accusative clitic, which shared the same phonotactically constrained distribution patterns. The data indicate that exophoric pragamatic iconicity exploits and maintains the alternation, whereas endophoric iconicity and analogy conspire to end it.

Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change

Author : Janice Aski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614516391
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Analogy as Structure and Process

Author : Esa Itkonen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294011
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Analogy as Structure and Process by : Esa Itkonen

Download or read book Analogy as Structure and Process written by Esa Itkonen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of analogy is of central concern to modern cognitive scientists, whereas it has been largely neglected in linguistics in the past four decades. The goal of this thought-provoking book is (1) to introduce a cognitively and linguistically viable notion of analogy; and (2) to re-establish and build on traditional linguistic analogy-based research. As a starting point, a general definition of analogy is offered that makes the distinction between analogy-as-structure and analogy-as-process. Chapter 2 deals with analogy as used in traditional linguistics. It demonstrates how phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and diachronic linguistics make use of analogy and discusses linguistic domains in which analogy does or did not work. The appendix gives a description of a computer program, which performs such instances of analogy-based syntactic analysis as have long been claimed impossible. Chapter 3 supports the ultimate (non-modular) ‘unity of the mind’ and discusses the existence of pervasive analogies between language and such cognitive domains as vision, music, and logic. The final chapter presents evidence for the view that the cosmology of every culture is based on analogy. At a more abstract level, the role of analogy in scientific change is scrutinized, resulting in a meta-analogy between myth and science.

Iconicity in Language

Author : Raffaele Simone
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027285705
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Iconicity in Language by : Raffaele Simone

Download or read book Iconicity in Language written by Raffaele Simone and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-02-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.e. that it is structured independently from the outside world and the natural equipment of language users. Around the world, semiotically biased linguistics (functionalism, naturalism, etc.) takes this position, which differentiates it very clearly from generative linguistics. One of the basic assumptions of such approaches is that language structure includes some non-arbitrary aspects, from the phonological through the textual level, and a great amount of research has occurred in the last decade regarding the “iconic aspects” of language(s). This volume focuses on generally neglected dimensions of language and semiotic activity, featuring contributions by philosophers, linguists, semioticians, and psychologists. After tracing the tradition of iconicity in the history of linguistic thought, the central section is devoted to specific analyses emphasizing the role of non-arbitrary phenomena in language foundation and linguistic structure. Specifically discussed are numeration systems, the gestural systems of communication among deaf people, the genesis of writing in children, and inter-ethnic communication.

Analogy and Morphological Change

Author : David L Fertig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074864623X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Analogy and Morphological Change written by David L Fertig and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense? Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best students aced the test, did the pretty good students beece it? You've probably often pondered such questions yourself, but did you know that similar questions have inspired some of the most important advances in our understanding not only of how languages change but also of how children acquire grammar and how the human mind works? This book is designed to help readers make sense of morphological change and, more generally, of the concept of analogy and its role in language and in human cognition. With a critical look at the past 150 years of linguistic work on analogical change, David Fertig brings clarity to a field rife with terminological and theoretical confusion.

Limiting the Iconic

Author : Ludovic De Cuypere
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290776
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Limiting the Iconic written by Ludovic De Cuypere and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of iconicity in language change. An extensive analysis is provided of some basic but nonetheless fundamental questions relating to iconicity in language, including: what is a linguistic sign and how are linguistic signs different from signs in general? What is an iconic sign and how may iconicity be involved in language? How does iconicity pertain to the relation between language and cognition? This book offers a new and comprehensive theoretical framework for iconicity in language. It is argued that the linguistic sign is fundamentally arbitrary, but that iconicity may be involved on a secondary level, adding extra meaning to an utterance.

The Power of Analogy

Author : Dieter Wanner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110919818
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Analogy written by Dieter Wanner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Power of Anology, Dieter Wanner argues for reinstating historical linguistics, especially in (morpho-)syntax, as constitutive of any theoretical account of language. In the first part, he provides a critique of some foundational concepts of an object-oriented linguistic perspective, questioning the distinction between synchrony and diachrony, dichotomous parametrization, grammaticality judgments, and formal generalization. Instead, the immanent perspective of the linguistic individual, licensed by broad cognitive functions, highlights such relegated dimensions as similarity, (surface) redundancy, frequency of form, and social and environmental conditions on language use. In the second part, Dieter Wanner relies on a systematic construct of analogy as the dynamic force enabling language, tying together acquisition, language use, and linguistic change. Such analogy is pervasive, driven by local models, and inevitably spreading through the social web of linguistic practice. The unpredictability, incompletion, and typical slowness of change thereby become the norm, while categorical closure remains a marked possibility. The framework of "Soft Syntax" spells out an operative model for syntax relying on precedence, cohesion, dependence, agreement, constructional identity, and concatenation. These six dimensions and their interplay undergo a detailed exploration of their diachronic operation and implications, applying them to typical examples taken from the history of the Romance languages. The openness of the framework enables diachronic linguistics to approach old problems in a new light and to ask new questions about the mechanics and nature of language change.

Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Author : Klaas Willems
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290768
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Naturalness and Iconicity in Language by : Klaas Willems

Download or read book Naturalness and Iconicity in Language written by Klaas Willems and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics, linguistic iconicity in semiotics, iconic structures in Sign Languages, natural and unnatural sound patterns, the iconic nature of parts of speech, the relation between (un)markedness and naturalness, and lexical and syntactic iconicity. The research conducted is based on sound (meta)theoretical analyses and/or original empirical research. The data and innovative views presented are bound to spark discussion in an age-old debate that has lost nothing of its significance.

Analogy, Levelling, Markedness

Author : Aditi Lahiri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110808935
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Analogy, Levelling, Markedness written by Aditi Lahiri and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Understanding Language Change

Author : April M. S. McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446655
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Language Change written by April M. S. McMahon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

Iconic Investigations

Author : Lars Elleström
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027243484
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Iconic Investigations written by Lars Elleström and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume also contains studies of media types such as music and visual images that are integrated into the overall project to deepen the understanding of iconicity the creation of meaning by way of similarity relations. Iconicity is a fundamental but relatively unexplored part of signification in language and other media types. During the last decades, the study of iconicity has emerged as a vital research area with far-reaching interdisciplinary scope and the volume should be of interest for students and researchers interested in scholarly fields such as semiotics, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor studies, poetry, intermediality, and multimodality.

Outside-in, Inside-out

Author : Costantino Maeder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027232250
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Outside-in, Inside-out written by Costantino Maeder and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity 'inside-out', some suggesting that 'less-is-more'; others focus on the cognitive factors 'inside' the brain that are important for the iconic phenomena that are produced in the 'outside' world. In addition this volume includes a paper related to iconicity in music and its interaction with language. Other papers range from the theoretical issues involved in the evolution of language, to those that offer many 'inside-out' claims, such as claiming that nouns are derived from pronouns, and as such should more properly be called 'pro-pronouns'. Also, this volume includes perhaps the first English-language analysis of the iconic aspects of sound symbolism in a prayer from the Koran. This is a truly interdisciplinary collection that should turn some of the notions of iconicity in language and literature 'outside-in' and 'inside-out'.

Analogy

Author : Raimo Anttila
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Analogy written by Raimo Anttila and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 1977 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphor and Iconicity

Author : M. Hiraga
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230510701
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Iconicity written by M. Hiraga and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor and Iconicity attempts to clarify the interplay of metaphor and iconicity in the creation and interpretation of spoken and written texts from a cognitive perspective. There are various degrees in which metaphor and iconicity manifest themselves, ranging from sound symbolism and parallelism in poetic discourse to word order, inflectional forms, and other grammatical structures in ordinary discourse. The book makes unique contributions to the study of the relationship of form and meaning.

Form Miming Meaning

Author : Max Nänny
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027221797
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Form Miming Meaning written by Max Nänny and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Presents selected papers from a March 1997 symposium held in Zurich, in sections on general topics, sound and rhythm, typography and graphic design, word-formation, and syntax and discourse. Studies explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of scholars is especially interested in how far the primary code, the code of grammar, is influenced by iconic motivation and how originally iconic models have become conventionalized. A second group of contributors is more interested in the presence of iconicity as part of the secondary code. Specific subjects include imagination by ideophones, the visual poetry of e. e. cummings, and iconic use of syntax in fiction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Operationalizing Iconicity

Author : Pamela Perniss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261415
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Operationalizing Iconicity written by Pamela Perniss and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. Chapters in the first section (Iconicity in language) provide linguistic analyses of systems of iconic forms in different languages, across both space (areally) and time (diachronically). The second section (Iconicity in literature) is concerned with stylistic analyses of iconicity in literature, in both poetry and prose and across a range of devices and genres. The third section (Iconicity in visual media) highlights the use and effects of iconicity in pictorial, photographic and cinematic media. The final section (Iconicity in semiotic analysis) offers a theoretical perspective, targeting an operationalisation of iconicity with respect to the relationship between types and subtypes of Peircean signs.

On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change

Author : Hendrik De Smet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268002
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change by : Hendrik De Smet

Download or read book On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change written by Hendrik De Smet and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).