New Vistas in Grammar

Invariance and Variation

Proceedings of the Second International Roman Jakobson Conference, New York University, Nov. 5–8, 1985

Editors

Linda R. Waugh

Stephen Rudy

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The papers in this volume reflect the renewed interest in the semantics of grammatical categories and the issues of invariance and variation in grammar. In particular, this collection presents the current understanding of invariance of grammar with respect to the synchronic and diachronic analyses of specific languages, and as realized in work on typology and universals.The book is divided into five sections: The Question of Invariance; Invariance and Grammatical Categories; Grammar and Discourse; Grammar and Pragmatics; Typology and Universals.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 49] 1991. x, 540 pp.

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Table of Contents

Preface Stephen Rudy	ix–x
Introduction Linda R. Waugh	1–7
1. The question of invariance
The concept of structure in contemporary linguistics Edward Stankiewicz	11–32
Grasping the Nettle: variation as proof of invariance Erica C. García	33–59
Invariant meaning: alternative variations on an invariant theme Yishai Tobin	61–82
2. Invariance and grammatical categories
Toward a universal calculus of inflectional categories: on Roman Jakobson’s Trail Igor Mel’čuk	85–109
Towards a typology of verbal categories Howard I. Aronson	111–131
Two types of markedness and their implications for the conceptualization of grammatical invariance Rodney B. Sangster	133–151
The role of animacy in language change: from dative to genitive in middle Indo-Aryan Monique A. Burston	153–165
Invariance and mutation in Acatec Mayan John S. Robertson	167–184
Variation, invariance, hierarchy, and integration as grammatical parameters Pierre Swiggers	185–220
Invariance and markedness in grammatical categories Madeleine Newfield and Linda R. Waugh	221–238
3. Grammar and discourse
Tense-aspect and hierarchy of meanings: pragmatic, textual, modal, discourse, expressive, referential Linda R. Waugh	241–259
On the concept of time: prolegomena to a theory of aspect and tense in narrative discourse Nils B. Thelin	261–285
On the projection of equivalence relations into syntagms Henning Andersen	287–311
Invariance in grammar, variation in discourse: discussion Flora Klein-Andreu	313–318
4. Grammar an pragmatics
Deixis and shifters after Jakobson Herman Parret	321–340
Praguean structure and autopoiesis: deixis as individuation Cornelis H. van Schooneveld	341–362
Shifters and non-verbal categories of Russian Olga T. Yokoyama	363–386
English speech act verbs: A historical perspective Elizabeth Closs Traugott	387–406
Grammar and pragmatics: The two axes of language and deixis Edna Andrews	407–413
5. Typology and universals
Two approaches to language universals Joseph H. Greenberg	417–435
Invariance and variation: The dimensional model of language universals Hansjakob Seiler	437–449
Classical and modern universals research: their philosophical background Elmar Holenstein	451–463
Language typology and diachronic linguistics Thomas V. Gamkrelidze	465–472
Language universals in relation to acquisition and change: A tribute to Roman Jakobson John A. Hawkins	473–493
Paralinguistic universals and preconceptual thinking in language Ivan Fónagy	495–516

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Subjects

Linguistics

Pragmatics

Typology

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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