Iconicity and generative grammar  

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Newmeyer, Frederick J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 68 no. 4 (Dec. 1992), page 756-796.
Fulltext: ICONICITY AND GENERATIVE GRAMMAR.pdf (857.14KB)

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A theme running through much of the functionalist literature in linguistics is that grammatical structure, to a considerable degree, has an 'iconic' motivation. This theme can be distilled into three rather distinct claims: (I) iconic principles govern speakers' choices of structurally available options in discourse; (2) structural options that reflect discourseiconic principles become grammaticalized; (3) grammatical structure is an iconic reflection of conceptual structure. After presenting numerous examples from the functionalist literature in support of the idea that iconicity is widespread in language, I argue that claim (I) is irrelevant to generative grammar; claim (2), if correct, poses no challenge to generative grammar, despite a widespread belief to the contrary; and claim (3) has literally been built into standard versions of generative grammar.' I go on to discuss the implications of icoTlic relations in language for the autonomy hypothesis and, at a more speculative level, for the evolution of language. *

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