Meaning as Explanation
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Meaning as Explanation

Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory

  1. 499 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Meaning as Explanation

Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory

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Yes, you can access Meaning as Explanation by Ellen Contini-Morava, Barbara S. Goldberg, Ellen Contini-Morava,Barbara S. Goldberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. List of contributors
  4. Introduction: On linguistic sign theory
  5. Part I Issues of theory and methodology
  6. Theory
  7. Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory
  8. Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses
  9. Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis
  10. The purpose of a grammatical analysis
  11. When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens
  12. Part II Deixis
  13. Deixis from a cognitive point of view
  14. Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function
  15. Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives
  16. Part III Lexical meaning
  17. Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited
  18. Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon
  19. Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse
  20. The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish
  21. Conversational focus
  22. Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness
  23. Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish
  24. Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences
  25. Author index
  26. Subject index