Table Of ContentTOWARD A CALCULUS OF MEANING
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Volume 43
Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin (eds)
Toward a Calculus of Meaning:
Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features and Deixis
TOWARD A CALCULUS
OF MEANING
STUDIES IN MARKEDNESS,
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND DEIXIS
Edited by
EDNA ANDREWS
Duke Universit}'
YISHAI TOBIN
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Toward a calculus of meaning : studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis / edited
by Edna Andrews, Yishai Tobin.
p. cm. -- (Studies in functional and structural linguistics; ISSN 0165-7712; v. 43)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Markedness (Linguistics) 2. Distinctive features (Linguistics) 3. Grammar, Comparative
and general-Deixis. 4. Semantics. I. Andrews, Edna, 1958- . II. Tobin, Y. HI. Series.
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Table of Contents
Contributors ix
Introduction
Edna Andrews and Yishai Tobin xi
I. Theoretical and Methodological Overview
Phoneme and Morpheme and the Sign Nature of Language 2
Cornells H. van Schooneveld
Phonological Markedness and a Plea for Useful Linguistics 55
Anatoly Liberman
Remarks on the Semantic Features of Cases and Prepositions 71
as Related to Syntax
Petr S gall, Alla Bémová, and Eva Hajičová
The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings 83
Robert S. Kirsner
II. Studies in Russian and Slavic Languages
Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian: 109
Markedness as a Semiotic Principle
Edna Andrews
Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems 141
Lawrence E. Feinberg
The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes 159
Annie Joly Sperling
Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and 199
Their Relationship to Markedness
Ronald F. Feldstein
VIII ANDREWS AND TOBIN
Deixis in Time and Space: The Fate of the Russian Demonstrativesej 217
Irina Dolgova and Elena Maksimova
A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition 235
in the East Slavic Substantive (Plural Paradigms)
Stefan M. Pugh
III. Applications to Other Languages, Language Families, and
Aphasia
"Things" in a Noun Class Language: 251
Semantic Functions of Grammatical Agreement in Swahili
Ellen Contini-Morava
Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech 291
Barbara A. Fennell
The Five Deictics of Lak 307
Victor A. Friedman
Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic 319
Robert Fradkin
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory: 347
The Modern Hebrew Verb
Yishai Tobin
The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production and 381
Comprehension of Locative Prepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia
Mark W.Leikin
Name Index 415
Subject Index 421
Contributors
(in alphabetical order) Robert Fradkin
Department of Asian and East
European Languages
University of Maryland
Edna Andrews
College Park, Maryland
Department of Slavic Languages and
U.S.A.
Literatures
Duke University
Victor A. Friedman
Durham, North Carolina 27706
U.S.A. Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures
1130 East 59th Street
Alla Bémová
Charles University Chicago, Illinois 60637
MFFUK- Linguistics U.S.A.
Malostranske n. 25
118 00 Prague 1 Eva Hajičová
The Czech Republic Charles University
MFFUK- Linguistics
Ellen Contini-Morava Malostranske n. 25
Department of Anthropology 118 00 Prague 1
University of Virginia The Czech Republic
Charlottesville, Virginia 22906
U.S.A. Robert S. Kirsner
Department of Germanic Languages
Irina Dolgova University of California- Los
Department of Slavic Languages and Angeles
Literatures Los Angeles, California 90024
Duke University U.S.A.
Durham, North Carolina 27706
U.S.A. Mark Leikin
University of Haifa
Lawrence E. Feinberg Mount Carmel, Haifa 31999
Department of Slavic Languages Israel
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 Anatoly Liberman
U.S.A. Department of German
University of Minnesota
Ronald F. Feldstein Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Department of Slavic Languages and U.S.A.
Literatures
Indiana University Elena Maksimova
Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Department of Slavic Languages and
U.S.A. Literatures
Duke University
Barbara A. Fennell Durham, North Carolina 27706
Department of English U.S.A.
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina 27659-8105 Stefan M. Pugh
U.S.A. Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27706
x ANDREWS AND TOBIN
Petr Sgall
Charles University
MFFUK- Linguistics
Malostranske n. 25
118 00 Prague 1
The Czech Republic
Annie Joly Sperling
Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
U.S.A.
Yishai Tobin
Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Be'er Sheva 84 105
Israel
Cornelis H. van Schooneveld
"La Fraternité"
Vozerier-Amancy
74800 La Roche-sur-Foron
Haute Savoie
France
