Overview

This is the second volume of papers to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. It assumes a basic familiarity with sign-based theory, especially as carried out by Columbia school scholars.

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Author:   Wallis Reid (Rutgers University) ,  Ricardo Otheguy (City University of New York) ,  Nancy Stern (Hofstra University) ,  Wallis Reis
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   48
Weight:   0.920kg
ISBN:  

9789027215574

ISBN 10:   902721557
Pages:   413
Publication Date:   26 July 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues; 4. (What) do noun class markers mean? (by Contini-Morava, Ellen); 5. Rethinking the Place of Statistics in Columbia School Analysis (by Davis, Joseph); 6. The Linguistic Sign in its Paradigmatic Context: Autonomy Revisited (by Elson, Mark J.); 7. Part II. Sign-Based Linguistic Analyses; 8. A Surpassingly Simple Analysis (by Davis, Joseph); 9. Serbo-Croatian Deixis: Balancing Attention with Difficulty in Processing (by Gorup, Radmila J.); 10. Do - One Sign, One Meaning? (by Hirtle, Walter); 11. Data, Comprehensiveness, Monosemy (by Ruhl, Charles); 12. Phonology As Human Behavior: Initial Consonant Clusters Across Languages (by Tobin, Yishai); 13. Celtic Sense in Saxon Garb (by Wherrity, Michael P.); 14. Problems of Aspiration in Modern Standard Urdu (by Azim, Abdul); 15. Part III. Columbia School in the Context of 20th Century Linguistics; 16. Cognitive and Semiotic Modes of Explanation in Functional Grammar (by Huffman, Alan); 17. The Future of a Minimalist Linguistics in a Maximalist World (by Kirsner, Robert S.); 18. Saussurean Anti-Nomenclaturism in Grammatical Analysis: A Comparative Theoretical Perspective (by Otheguy, Ricardo); 19. Index of Names; 20. Index of Subjects

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