Robert A. Leonard

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert A. Leonard is involved.

Articles

Leonard, Robert A. 2006 Meaning in nonlinguistic systems: Observations, remarks, and hypotheses on food, architecture, and honor in Kenya Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 309–334 | Article

This article extends the boundaries of Columbia School linguistic semantic theory by applying its analytical constructs to nonlinguistic behaviors, where, as in language, there exist systematicity and arbitrariness: food; construction of social and gender identity; and use of architectural,… read more

Leonard, Robert A. and Wendy Saliba Leonard 2006 A semantic analysis of Swahili suffix li Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 223–237 | Article

This Columbia School analysis of the Swahili suffix li rests on the distinction between meaning and message, as the proposed hypothesis does not simply categorize message types as previous analyses have done, but rather posits a single meaning which accounts for the various messages to which li… read more