Papers originally presented at a Columbia School Linguistics conference. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: Columbia School Linguistics in the functional-cognitive space of the 21st century / Nancy Stern -- Using big data to support meaning hypotheses for some and any / Nadav Sabar -- The object of explanation for linguistics: Diver's radical proposal for the foundations of linguistic theory / Wallis Reid -- The relevance of relevance in linguistic analysis: Spanish simple past tenses / Bob de Jonge -- La estabilización del tema discursivo: Estrategia de uso de los llamados pronombres personales sujetos en condiciones de correferencia en español / Berenice Darwich -- Aproximación al significado de la forma española QUE dentro de la Escuela de Columbia / Eduardo Ho-Fernández -- El "juego" intraparadigmático: Una mirada al uso actual de los clíticos en Buenos Aires / Angelita Martínez -- Re-visitando significados: Las formas del llamado "futuro" en español / Angelita Martínez and Verónica N. Mailhes -- Being polite in Argentina / Elisabeth Mauder and Angelita Martínez -- A comparative study of the restrictive markings of Mandarin jiù, cái, and zhi / Xuehua Xiang -- Evolutionary Phonology as human behavior / Juliette Blevins.
Summary:
This collection is the fifth volume of selected papers to emerge from Columbia School (CS) linguistics conferences. A radically functionalist approach, CS shares with Cognitive Linguistics the view that grammar is composed of form-meaning correspondences. CS views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its users. The volume includes papers on methodological issues and innovative analyses on English, Spanish, and Mandarin that illustrate the value of the strict application of clearly spelled out theoretical principles to the execution of linguistic analysis. Four of the volume?s eleven papers are written in Spanish, and all papers have abstracts in both English and Spanish. An introduction highlights the theoretical and analytical premises of CS, and their differences from and similarities with cognitive-functional approaches. The collection will be of interest to researchers and laymen who aim to understand the role of language in human communication.
Series:
Studies in functional and structural linguistics, 1385-7916 ; volume 77
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