Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Syntactic iconicity in language
6. Iconicity in the basic serialization rules of Modern German 13
7. Iconicity, markedness, and processing constraints in frozen locutions 31
8. Nonarbitrariness and iconicity: Coding possibilities 47
9. On language internal iconicity 57
10. Semantic constraints on phonologically independent freezes 65
11. Categories of word order iconicity 79
12. Homo loquens as "sender-receiver" (i.e., transceiver) and the raison d'être of sememic, lexemic and morphemic prefabs in natural language structures and language use 91
13. Deixis as an iconic element of syntax 117
14. A binary approach to iconicity in word order 131
15. The iconicity of "dative shift" in English: Considerations from information flow in discourse 155
16. The iconicity of focus and existence in Modern Hebrew 177
17. Iconicity in the lexicon and its relevance for a theory of morphology 189
18. Adjectives vs. verbs: The iconicity of part-of-speech membership 223
19. Part II Syntactic iconicity in literature
20. Triplicity and textual iconicity: Russian literature through a triangular prism 249
21. The iconicity of metaphor 265
22. Iconicity of expressive syntactic transformations 285
23. Part III Syntactic iconicity in psychology
24. Motor theory of language in relation to syntax 307
25. The psychological basis of syntactic iconicity 331
26. Spatial structure as a syntactical or a cognitive operation: Evidence from signing and nonsigning children 343
27. Relationship between language and motor action revisited 351
28. Preservation of syntactic icons in Alzheimer's disease 365
29. Aphasia and syntactic iconicity 373
30. Part IV Syntactic iconicity in philosophy
31. Syntactic iconicity and connectionist models of language and cognition 393
32. Pragmatics and iconicity 419
33. Index of subjects 433
34. Index of names 443