The Logic of Markedness
The Logic of Markedness

Author: Edwin L. Battistella

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996-08-22

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 019535592X

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Theories of language espoused by linguists during much of this century have assumed that there is a hierarchy to the elements of language such that certain constructions, rules, and features are unmarked while others are marked; "play" for example, is unmarked or neutral, while "played" or "player" is marked. This opposition, referred to as markedness, is one of the concepts which both Chomskyan generative grammar and Jakobsonian structuralism appear to share, yet which each tradition has treated differently. Battistella studies the historical development of the concept of markedness in the Prague School structuralism of Roman Jakobson, its importation into generative linguistics, and its subsequent development within Chomsky's "principles and parameters" framework. He traces how structuralist and generative linguistics have drawn on and expanded the notion of markedness, both as a means of characterizing linguistic constructs and as a theory of the innate language faculty.

Markedness
Markedness

Author: Edwin L. Battistella

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1990-09-11

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780791403709

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Battistella traces the development of markedness theory as a central part of structuralist theories of language. He outlines the concepts of marked and unmarked from Prague School structuralism to present day applications in linguistic theory and cultural analysis, using the reference point of English grammar and sound structure. The author focuses on the fundamental asymmetry between terms of linguistic relationships, in which one term is more broadly defined and hence dominant (the unmarked term) while the other is more narrowly defined (the marked term). In addition to examining language-particular markedness relations evident in the structure and history of English, Battistella raises questions concerning universal asymmetries as well. He discusses the status of markedness as a unifying concept of linguistic structure and as a principle of language change.

The Logic of Language
The Logic of Language

Author: Michael Shapiro

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-21

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 303106612X

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This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign system par excellence, in the service of its most important function as the instrument of cognition and of communication. This book is intended as a companion volume to Shapiro’s The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage. The two volumes taken in tandem will provide a solid grounding in the observational science of linguistics, linking theory with practice in a way that will expand one’s understanding of language as a global phenomenon.

Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels
Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels

Author: Wally V. Cirafesi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9004250271

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This source edition of Gessner’s private library contains those seventy eight books that Gessner read most carefully and annotated by hand. The majority have been reproduced from the rich holdings of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, while other important copies included in this edition are held by the University Library of Basle. The marginalia in these books are so numerous that they almost constitute a new set of sources, which are of interest not only to historians and philologists but also to those who study the history of early modern medicineand the natural sciences.

Markedness Theory
Markedness Theory

Author: Edna Andrews

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1990-05-09

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780822309598

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Edna Andrews clarifies and extends the work of Roman Jakobson to develop a theory of invariants in language by distinguishing between general and contextual meaning in morphology and semantics. Markedness theory, as Jakobson conceived it, is a qualitative theory of oppositional binary relations. Andrews shows how markedness theory enables a linguist to precisely define the systemically given oppositions and hierarchies represented by linguistic categories. In addition, she redefines the relationship between Jakobsonian markedness theory and Peircean interpretants. Though primarily theoretical, the argument is illustrated with discussions about learning a second language, the relationship of linguistics to mathematics (particularly set theory, algebra, topology, and statistics) in their mutual pursuit of invariance, and issues involving grammatical gender and their implications in several languages.

The Language of the New Testament
The Language of the New Testament

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 9004236406

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In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians in terms of its context, history and development.

Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture
Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13: 9004234160

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In "Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture," Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts.

Prague Linguistic Circle Papers
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers

Author: Eva Haji?ová

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1995-12-21

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781556196744

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This volume is the first one of the revived series of "Travaux," which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics. The first volume of the new series is divided into five sections: 1. Introductory papers characterizing the development of the Prague School in the recent decades; 2. Methodological issues of structural and functional linguistics; 3. Sentence structure; 4. Discourse patterns; 5. Theory of literature. In accordance with the tradition, the volume contains contributions concerning issues of principle, empirical linguistic studies, and also papers from the theory of literature.

The Logic of Sexuation
The Logic of Sexuation

Author: Ellie Ragland

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2004-04-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780791460788

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Challenges essentialist notions of gender through a detailed account of Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.