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In:Iconicity in Language
Edited by Raffaele Simone
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 110] 1995
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 10 February 1995
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Table of contents

Foreword: Under the Sign of Cratylusvii
I. History of Linguistics1
Criticisms of the Arbitrariness of Language in Leibniz and Vico and the ‘Natural’ Philosophy of Language3
II. Semiotic Theory19
Interactions between Iconicity and Other Semiotic Parameters in Language21
Iconicity and/or Arbitrariness39
Isomorphism in the Grammatical Code: Cognitive and Biological Considerations47
The Icon as an Abductive Process towards Identity77
III. Language Description and Linguistic Theory85
The Iconic Index: From Sound Change to Rhyming Slang87
Iconicity in Grammaticalization Processes119
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Iconicity between Indicativity and Predicativity141
Iconic Aspects of Syntax: A Pragmatic Approach153
Figure and Ground in Second Language Narratives: Traces of Iconicity171
Morphological Markedness in L2 Acquisition197
IV. Sign Systems Other than Verbal Language235
Terms for Spatio-Temporal Relations in Italian Sign Language237
Creative Iconic Gestures: some Evidence from Aphasics257
Iconicity in Children’s First Written Texts277
Index309
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