Syntactics, the third component of a linguistic sign
Syntactics, the third component of a linguistic sign

Author(s): Igor Aleksandrowicz Mel'čuk
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: syntactics; combination of signs; non-linguistic signs; national body language; semiotics of culture; cultural studies; nonverbal semiotics; contemporary phraseology
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the notion of linguistic sign. The Saussurean concept of sign is presented, followed by the discussion of the missing “third component”: syntactics, or the data on sign’s combinatorics, which is of utmost importance for linguistic signs. The notion of linguistic sign within Meaning-Text approach is introduced, with several linguistic examples illustrating a linguistic sign’s components.

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