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Meaning as Explanation
Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory
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Meaning as Explanation
Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction: On linguistic sign theory
- Part I Issues of theory and methodology
- Theory
- Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory
- Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses
- Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis
- The purpose of a grammatical analysis
- When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens
- Part II Deixis
- Deixis from a cognitive point of view
- Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function
- Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives
- Part III Lexical meaning
- Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited
- Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon
- Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse
- The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish
- Conversational focus
- Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness
- Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish
- Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences
- Author index
- Subject index
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