Igor Dreer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Igor Dreer is involved.

Title

Expressing the Same by the Different: The subjunctive vs the indicative in French

Igor Dreer

This volume offers an alternative, sign-oriented analysis of the distribution of the French Indicative and Subjunctive. It rejects both government and functions, attributed to both moods, and shows that the distribution of the Indicative and the Subjunctive is motivated by their invariant meanings.… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 59] 2007. xxx, 272 pp.

Articles

Dreer, Igor 2011 The distribution of linguistic forms and textual structure: Two sign-oriented approaches to the textual analysis of the use of the French Indicative and Subjunctive Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence, Jonge, Bob de and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 17–44 | Article

This paper builds on my previous work (cf. Dreer 2007) and presents two sign-oriented approaches to the textual analysis that emphasize the connection between the distribution of linguistic forms and the textual structure. The paper deals with the semantic opposition of the French Indicative and… read more

Dreer, Igor 2006 Phonology as human behavior: A combinatory phonology of Byelorussian Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 107–130 | Article

This paper applies the theory of Phonology as Human Behavior to an analysis of the distribution of consonants in monosyllabic words in Byelorussian. Like other languages, Byelorussian shows a direct connection between the effort that speakers make to control the active articulators, involved in the… read more