1.6. The ultimate nature of meaning

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. General concepts
6. 1.1. The evolution of conciousness and its neurological foundation 7
7. 1.2. From primate signals to human signs 13
8. 1.3. The concept of reference in a self-organizing system 17
9. 1.4. Higher-order consciousness reexamined 21
10. 1.5. The locus and function of monosemy in human consciousness 25
11. 1.6. The ultimate nature of meaning 33
12. 1.7. The role of metaphor in higher-order consciousness 39
13. 1.8. The place of sign theory in neurolinguistics 43
14. Part 2. Archetypes of meaning
15. 2.1. The archetypes of time-consciousness 53
16. 2.2. Evidence of time-consciousness in prepositions 61
17. 2.3. Comparing time- and space-consciousness in prepositions 71
18. 2.4. Further evidence of space-consciousness in prepositions 77
19. 2.5. Plurality as the defining characteristic of one-dimensional phenomena 81
20. 2.6. Further evidence of space-consciousness in grammatical relations 87
21. 2.7. The space-time continuum in human consciousness 93
22. Part 3. Syntactic structure
23. 3.1. The syntactic structure of sign relations 97
24. 3.2. The modification relation in English 103
25. 3.3. The structure of the English predicate 113
26. 3.4. The modification relation in French 121
27. 3.5. The archetypal structure of the French verb 133
28. Part 4. The structure of the lexicon
29. 4.1. Transition to lexical meaning 149
30. 4.2. Archetypes in the nominal lexicon 151
31. 4.3. Archetypes in the verbal lexicon 159
32. Epilogue 163
33. Bibliography 169
34. Index 173