Sebastian Shaumyan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sebastian Shaumyan is involved.

Titles

Signs, Mind, and Reality: A theory of language as the folk model of the world

Sebastian Shaumyan

The book presents a new science of semiotic linguistics. The goal of semiotic linguistics is to discover what characterizes language as an intermediary between the mind and reality so that language creates the picture of reality we perceive. The cornerstone of semiotic linguistics is the discovery… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 65] 2006. xxvii, 315 pp.

Theoretical Aspects of Passivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar

Jean-Pierre Desclés, Zlatka Guentchéva and Sebastian Shaumyan

Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent is transposed into a predicate modifier and applied to the passive predicate of the agentless construction. The passive predicate consists… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:1] 1985. viii, 115 pp.

Articles

Desclés, Jean-Pierre, Zlatka Guentchéva and Sebastian Shaumyan 1986 Theoretical Analysis of Reflexivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar Lingvisticæ Investigationes 10:1, pp. 1–65 | Miscellaneous

Shaumyan, Sebastian 1985 Constituency, dependency and applicative structure Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells, Makkai, Adam and Alan K. Melby (eds.), pp. 149–204 | Article

Shaumyan, Sebastian 1984 11. Semiotics laws in linguistics and natural science New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics, Copeland, James E. (ed.), pp. 231–258 | Chapter