Semiotic Grammar
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 September 1997
- ISBN 9780198236887
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 242x165x30 mm
- Weight 843 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
William B. McGregor proposes and develops a new theory of grammar based on the notion of the linguistic sign. In interpreting language and its structure as a semiotic system consisting of signs, he provides a range of new analyses of well established syntactic and morphological relations, categories, and roles. This book constitutes an important and valuable contribution to linguistic theory. The author draws on his extensive knowledge of Australian Aboriginal languages, as well as discussing data from more familiar languages, such as English.
MoreLong description:
The label `semiotic grammar' captures a fundamental property of the grammars of human languages: not only is language a semiotic system in the familiar Saussurean sense, but its organizing system, its grammar, is also a semiotic system. This proposition, explicated in detail by William McGregor in this book, constitutes a new theory of grammar.
Semiotic Grammar is `functional' rather than `formal' in its intellectual origins, approaches, and methods. It demonstrates, however, that neither a purely functional nor a purely formal account of language is adequate, given the centrality of the sign as the fundamental unit of grammatical analysis. The author distinguishes four types of grammatical signs: experiential, logical, interpersonal, and textural. The signifiers of these signs are syntagmatic relationships of the following types, respectively: constituency, dependency, conjugational (scopal) and linking (indexical, connective).
McGregor illustrates and exemplifies the theory with data from a variety of languages including English, Acehnese, Polish, Finnish, Japanese, Chinese, and Mohawk; and from his pioneering research on Gooniyandi and Nyulnyul, two languages of the Kimberleys region of Western Australia.
As one who desires to produce a 'practical' bilingual grammar and dictionary for a group of people living in a multilingual-multicultural environment, I found many of M's arguments for semiotic grammar compelling, largely because he attempts to explain linguistic units on the basis of the unity of syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Basic Concepts of Grammatical Theory
Syntagmatic Relations: A Classification of Signs
Constituency: The Experiential Semiotic
Dependency: The Logical Semiotic
Conjugation: The Interpersonal Semiotic
Linking Relationships: The Textural Semiotic
Enough Ain't Enough: The Grammar of Nominal Tautologies in English
Grammar and Beyond
References
Index
