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Natural Syntax - Iconicity and Erosion (Hardcover)
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Natural Syntax - Iconicity and Erosion (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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The view that language is in some way 'arbitrary', that there is no
formal relationship between a linguistic message and the thought it
is meant to convey, is long established and pervasive. The goal of
John Haiman's study is to challenge the monopoly of arbitrariness,
which he believes has affected in significant ways many models of
linguistic description and analysis, notably those proposed by
Saussure and more recently by Chomsky and his associates.
Linguistic structures, Dr Hainian claims, may be compared to
(non-linguistic) diagrams of our thoughts, and deviate from
iconicity in many of the same ways and for much the same reasons as
do diagrams in general. Arbitrariness develops as a result of the
relatively familiar principles of economy, generalization and
association. In relation to this thesis, Dr Haiman considers a wide
variety of constructions, including conditionals and
interrogatives, gapping, causative structures, auxiliaries and
reflexives, and provides a wealth of exemplification from different
languages that also points to typological differences in respect of
iconicity.
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