Towards A Calculus Of Meaning: Studies In Markedness, Distinctive Features And Deixis Book

	Contributors
	Introduction
	Phoneme and Morpheme and the Sign Nature of Language	2
	Phonological Markedness and a Plea for Useful Linguistics	55
	Remarks on the Semantic Features of Cases and Prepositions as Related to Syntax	71
	The Human Factor and the Insufficiency of Invariant Meanings	83
	Gender and Declension Shifts in Contemporary Standard Russian: Markedness as a Semiotic Principle	109
	Markedness and the Typology of Russian Verb Stems	141
	The Semantic Markings of Russian Verbal Suffixes	159
	Regular and Deviant Patterns of Russian Nominal Stress and Their Relationship to Markedness	199
	Deixis in Time and Space: The Fate of the Russian Demonstrativesej	217
	A Panchronic Approach to Morphological Competition in the East Slavic Substantive (Plural Paradigms)	235
	"Things" in a Noun Class Language: Semantic Functions of Grammatical Agreement in Swahili	251
	Markers of Association and Distance in German Reported Speech	291
	The Five Deictics of Lak	307
	Typologies of Person Categories in Slavic and Semitic	319
	Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Theory: The Modern Hebrew Verb	347
	The Application of Distinctive Semantic Features to the Production and Comprehension of Locative Prepositions in Different Forms of Aphasia	381
	Name Index	415
	Subject Index	421