Author: Shaumyan, Sebastian
Title: A Semiotic Theory of Language
Description: Bloomington, Indiana University Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi,352 pp. Minor rubbing. One page bears a smudge. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Aim and Structure of the Semiotic Theory of Language; A Semiotic Definition of Language; The Principle of Semiotic Relevance and Homonymy; Saussure's Notion of the Sign; Linguistics as a Part of Semiotics; The Goals of Linguistic Theory and the Semiotic Basis of Abstraction; Synchronic Linguistics and Diachronic Linguistics; Language Variation; The Semiotic versus Generativist Notion of Language; Phonology; The Phoneme and Distinctive Features; Physical and Functional Segmentation of the Speech Flow; Further Problems of Functional Identity; Distinctive Features and Experimental Phonetics; Phonological Antinomies; some Misconceptions about the Phonological Antinomies; Remarks on Bohr's Complementary Principle and Dialectics; An Illustration: How the Functional View of Speech Sounds Gave Birth to One of the Greatest Discoveries in the History of Linguistics; Alternative Theories of the Phoneme and the Distinctive Features; Phonological Syntagmatics; Phonological Units; Are Monovocalic Phonological Systems Possible?; Phonological Structure of the Syllable; The Primary and Secondary Functions of Vowels and Consonants in the Syllable; Comments on the Notion 'Extrasyllabic Consonant'; Prosodic Features; on Generative Phonology; Genotype Grammar; Two Levels of Grammar; Genotype Grammar and Phenotype Grammar; The Basic Notions of Genotype Grammar; Constituency; Dependency; Constituency and Dependency as Complementary Notions; The Structure of the Sentence; The Notion of Syntaxeme; Predicate Frames; Functional

Keywords: Applicative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Semiotics, Methodology, Phonology, Semiotic, Language, Languages