In:New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation
Edited by Linda R. Waugh and Stephen Rudy
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 49] 1991
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 27 December 1991
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.49.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The question of invariance
The concept of structure in contemporary linguistics
Grasping the Nettle: variation as proof of invariance
Invariant meaning: alternative variations on an invariant theme
2. Invariance and grammatical categories
Toward a universal calculus of inflectional categories: on Roman Jakobson’s Trail
Towards a typology of verbal categories
Two types of markedness and their implications for the conceptualization of grammatical invariance
The role of animacy in language change: from dative to genitive in middle Indo-Aryan
Invariance and mutation in Acatec Mayan
Variation, invariance, hierarchy, and integration as grammatical parameters
Invariance and markedness in grammatical categories
3. Grammar and discourse
Tense-aspect and hierarchy of meanings: pragmatic, textual, modal, discourse, expressive, referential
On the concept of time: prolegomena to a theory of aspect and tense in narrative discourse
On the projection of equivalence relations into syntagms
Invariance in grammar, variation in discourse: discussion
4. Grammar an pragmatics
Deixis and shifters after Jakobson
Praguean structure and autopoiesis: deixis as individuation
Shifters and non-verbal categories of Russian
English speech act verbs: A historical perspective
Grammar and pragmatics: The two axes of language and deixis
5. Typology and universals
Two approaches to language universals
Invariance and variation: The dimensional model of language universals
Classical and modern universals research: their philosophical background
Language typology and diachronic linguistics
Language universals in relation to acquisition and change: A tribute to Roman Jakobson
Paralinguistic universals and preconceptual thinking in language
