Diagrammatic iconicity in stem-inflection relations

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Motivation
5. Diagrammatic iconicity in stem-inflection relations 11
6. Temporal sequence and Chinese word order 49
7. Symmetry 73
8. The inherent iconism of intonation 97
9. Observations and speculations on subjectivity 109
10. The iconicity of the universal categories “noun” and “verb” 151
11. Part II: Isomorphism and automorphism
12. Iconicity, isomorphism, and non-arbitrary coding in syntax 187
13. The Child as a linguistic icon-maker 221
14. Iconicity and grammatical meaning 249
15. some iconic relationships among place, time, and discourse deixis 271
16. Conditional markers 289
17. Part III: Competing motivations
18. “oats” and “wheat” 311
19. Competing motivations 343
20. The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto-Bruman 367
21. Index of Languages 391
22. Index of Names 395
23. Index of Topics 401