Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language

Limiting the Iconic......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Dedication page......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1.1 Introduction......Page 22
1.2 The Presocratics......Page 23
1.3.1 On the correctness of names......Page 26
1.3.2 Correctness redefined......Page 27
1.4.1 A new concept of the sign......Page 30
1.4.2 Katà synthéken......Page 38
1.4.3 Aristotle on meaning and reference......Page 41
1.4.4 Aristotle\'s sign concept: a new interpretation......Page 43
1.5 Conclusion......Page 45
2.1 Introduction......Page 46
2.2.2 The linguistic sign is bilateral......Page 47
2.2.3 The linguistic sign is arbitrary......Page 49
2.3.1 Motivated by association......Page 53
2.3.2 \"L’esprit\"......Page 55
2.3.3 Relative motivation and iconicity......Page 56
2.3.4 \"La limitation de l\'arbitraire\"......Page 57
2.4 Conclusion......Page 59
3.1 Introduction......Page 62
3.2.1 Introduction......Page 65
3.2.2 Objective idealism......Page 66
3.2.3.1 Firstness......Page 68
3.2.3.3 Thirdness......Page 69
3.2.4 Semiosis......Page 70
3.2.5 Kinds of signs......Page 75
3.3.1 Introduction......Page 76
3.3.2 The case against iconicity25......Page 77
3.3.3 Iconicity and the iconic ground......Page 81
3.3.4 Primary and secondary iconicity......Page 86
3.3.5 Similarity: a double-edged sword......Page 89
3.4 Prospects and possibilities for linguistic iconicity......Page 94
3.5 Conclusion: Iconicity as a semiotic concept......Page 96
4.1 Introduction......Page 98
4.2 Reuniting Saussure and Peirce......Page 99
4.3 Iconicity: from sound to syntax......Page 101
4.4 Relative motivation vs. lexical proximity......Page 104
4.5 Conclusion: the essence of language according to Jakobson......Page 105
5.2 General classification......Page 106
5.2.1.1 Introduction......Page 107
5.2.1.2 Motivation (language external iconicity)......Page 109
5.2.1.3 Isomorphism (language internal iconicity)......Page 110
5.2.2 Endophoric vs. exophoric iconicity......Page 117
5.2.3 Automorphism......Page 120
5.2.4 Conclusion: language external and language internal iconicity......Page 121
5.3.1 Introduction......Page 122
5.3.2 Direct phonological iconicity25......Page 123
5.3.3.2 Associative phonological iconicity......Page 124
5.3.3.3 Phonaesthetic phonological iconicity25......Page 128
5.3.4 Conclusion......Page 130
5.4.1.1 Introduction......Page 132
5.4.1.2 The relevance of inflectional categories......Page 133
5.4.1.3 Morpheme order and stem fusion......Page 137
5.4.1.4 Explaining the correlations......Page 138
5.4.1.5 Conclusion: iconicity?......Page 139
5.4.2.1 Introduction: naturalness, markedness and iconicity......Page 140
5.4.2.2 A theory of Natural Morphology......Page 145
5.4.2.3 Natural Morphology: a preference theory......Page 154
5.4.3 Conclusion......Page 156
5.5 Syntactic iconicity......Page 157
5.5.1 The principle of cohesion53......Page 160
5.5.1.1 Causativity......Page 161
5.5.1.2 Transitivity......Page 164
5.5.1.3 Dative alternation63......Page 166
5.5.1.4 Complement clause constructions......Page 170
5.5.1.5 Possession......Page 172
5.5.1.6 Coordination......Page 174
5.5.2.1 Modifier-Head adjacency......Page 175
5.5.2.2 The prototypical speaker......Page 178
5.5.3.1 The linearity of events......Page 180
5.5.3.2 Subject before object......Page 182
5.5.3.3 The pragmatic principle of linear order......Page 184
5.5.4 Conclusion......Page 185
6.1 Introduction......Page 188
6.2 Against formalism: the non-autonomy hypothesis of language......Page 189
6.3 Iconicity: a generative approach......Page 191
6.4 Circularity and conceptualism......Page 196
6.4.1 The circularity objection......Page 197
6.4.2 Iconicity and the evolutionary framework of language change......Page 202
6.5.1 A Humboldtian view on language as cognition......Page 207
6.5.2 Linguistic cognition......Page 210
6.5.3 Linguistic competence: linguistic skills for iconicity in language......Page 213
6.6 Iconicity and language change......Page 220
6.6.1 Iconicity as an objective motivation for language change......Page 221
6.6.2 The conventionalisation of iconicity......Page 229
6.7 Conclusion......Page 234
7.1 Introduction......Page 238
7.2 Typological observations......Page 240
7.3 Jespersen\'s Cycle......Page 241
7.4.1 Stratal influence......Page 243
7.4.2 Word order......Page 244
7.4.3 A functionalist account......Page 245
7.5.1 Formal motivation......Page 247
7.5.2 Pragmatic motivation......Page 248
7.5.3 \"Discordantiel\" and \"forclusif\"......Page 251
7.6 Other sources of the second negator......Page 252
7.6.2 Reanalysis......Page 253
7.6.3 Asymmetric negation and iconicity......Page 260
7.7 Conclusion......Page 263
Figure 23. Two pathways towards double negation......Page 264
Conclusions......Page 266
References......Page 272
The series Iconicity in Language and Literature......Page 0