Mark A. Sicoli

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mark A. Sicoli is involved.

Articles

Sicoli, Mark A. 2015 Chapter 10. Agency and verb valence in Lachixío Zapotec Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 191–212 | Article

This paper draws on both elicited and conversational data to present the range of grammatical devices for marking agency and verb valence in Lachixío Zapotec, a West Zapotec language. In addition to syntactic valence related to the number of arguments taken by a verb as part of its argument… read more

Sicoli, Mark A. 2014 Ideophones, rhemes, interpretants Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 445–454 | Article

This commentary considers the depictive quality of ideophones within the context of a general semiotic. I seek to expand the limited uptake of iconicity in linguistic theory from a resemblance between sign and object along Peirce’s second trichotomy (icon, index, symbol) to discuss iconicity from… read more