Some thoughts on being minimal

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Editor’s preface vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. Biographical sketch of Hans-Heinrich Lieb 1
5. Hans-Heinrich Lieb: List of Publications 1964–1995 3
6. A formal approach to a general theory of language 13
7. Understanding understanding 31
8. Non-reducible grammatical relations without semantic content 45
9. Are linguistic objects internal, external, or both? 65
10. Some thoughts on being minimal 77
11. Case morphology and case system in L1 acquisition 89
12. Explorations in ‘idiolects’ 109
13. Phonological word structures 129
14. Idiolect and convention 151
15. Communion or communication? 163
16. Topic-focus articulation — A matter of langue or parole? 167
17. Phraseologie und Metonymik 177
18. Language universals and evolutionary bottlenecks 191
19. Speech intentions, speech planning, and the use of syntactic constructions 201
20. English verbal Idioms of aural perception 219
21. Semantics and grammar 233
22. The problem of ‘Adjectives’ in Mandarin Chinese 257
23. Beyond new structuralism 277
24. Wann hat eine Sprache begonnen? 287
25. Zur universalen dimension der IDENTIFIKATION 297
26. A series of explicata for the notion of meaning 313
27. Iconicity and syncretism 323
28. Remarks on language theory in te “Decade of the brain” 345
29. Index of names 361
30. Index of subjects and terms 367