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This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held
at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald
W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is
to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive Grammar
and the particular sign-based approach to language known as the Columbia
School. While they share certain basic assumptions, the "maximalist" CG and
the "minimalist" CS differ both theoretically and methodologically. Given
that philosophers from Mill to Kuhn to Feyerabend have stressed the
importance to any discipline of dialogue between opposing views, the
dialogue begun here cannot fail to bear fruit. The second kind of dialogue
is that among several sign-based approaches themselves and also between
them and two competitors: grammaticalization theory and generic
functionalism. Topics range from phonology to discourse. Analytical
problems are taken from a wide range of languages including English,
German, Guarani, Hebrew, Hualapai, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Mandarin,
Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Urdu, and Yaqui.
Table of contents
Introduction
Robert S. Kirsner 1–18
I. Cognitive Grammar
Form, meaning, and behavior: The Cognitive Grammar analysis of double
subject constructions
Ronald W. Langacker 21–60
Cataphoric pronouns as mental space designators: Their conceptual import
and discourse function
Michael B. Smith 61–90
II. Theoretical issues in classical sign-based linguistics
Monosemy, homonymy and polysemy
Wallis Reid 93–129
On the relationship between form and grammatical meaning in the linguistic sign
Mark J. Elson 131–154
Revisiting the gap between meaning and message
Joseph Davis 155–174
III. Analyses on the level of the classic linguistic sign
The givenness of background: A semantic-pragmatic study of two modern
German subordinating conjunctions
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 177–203
The relevance of relevance in linguistic analysis: Spanish subjunctive mood
Bob de Jonge 205–218
A sign-based analysis of English pronouns in conjoined expressions
Nancy Stern 219–234
Semantic oppositions in the Hebrew verb system
Noah Oron and Yishai Tobin 235–260
Grammaticization of 'to' and 'away': A unified account of -k and -m in Hualapai
Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama 261–273
IV. Below and above the level of the sign
Interaction of physiology and communication in the make-up and distribution
of stops in Lucknow Urdu
Shabana Hameed 277–288
Between phonology and lexicon: The Hebrew triconsonantal (CCC) root system
revolving around /r/ (C-r-C)
Yishai Tobin 289–323
Length of the extra-information phrase as a predictor of word order: A
cross-language comparison
Ricardo Otheguy, Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller and Eulalia Canals 325–340
Word-order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a
direct object, and an adverb: The interaction of syntactic, cognitive,
pragmatic, and prosodic features
Francisco Ocampo 341–360
Estrategias discursivas como parámetros para el análisis lingüístico
Angelita Martinez 361–379
Index of Names 381–383
Index of Subjects 384–388
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