Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Introduction: On linguistic sign theory 1
3. Part I Issues of theory and methodology
4. Theory 43
5. Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory 115
6. Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses 153
7. Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis 169
8. The purpose of a grammatical analysis 185
9. When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens 213
10. Part II Deixis
11. Deixis from a cognitive point of view 245
12. Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function 271
13. Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives 289
14. Part III Lexical meaning
15. Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited 323
16. Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon 361
17. Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse
18. The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish 381
19. Conversational focus 405
20. Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness 423
21. Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish 441
22. Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences 453
23. Author index 473
24. Subject index 477