Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction xi
5. I: Theoretical and Methodological Overview
6. 1. Phoneme and Morpheme and the sign Nature of Language 3
7. 2. Phonological Markedness and a Plea for useful Linguistics 55
8. 3. Remarks on the Semantic features of Cases and Prepositions as Related to Syntax 71
9. 4. The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings 83
10. II: Studies in Russian and Slavic Languages
11. 1. Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian 109
12. 2. Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems 141
13. 3. The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes 159
14. 4. Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and Their relationship to Markedness 199
15. 5. Deixis in Time and Space 217
16. 6. A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition in the East Slavic Substantive (Plural Paradigms) 235
17. III: Applications to Other Languages, Language Families, and Aphasia
18. 1. “Things” in a Noun Class Language 251
19. 2. Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech 291
20. 3. The Five Deictics of Lak 307
21. 4. Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic 319
22. 5. Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory 347
23. 6. The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production abd Comprehension of Locative Prepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia 381
24. Name Index 415
25. Subject Index 421