Papers presented at a conference held Oct. 1992, Rome, Italy
Includes bibliographical references and index
The reasons of iconicity : from Plato to de Brosses / Stefano Gensini -- Conflicts between iconicity and other semiotic parameters in language / Wolfgang Dressler -- Iconicity from the point of view of arbitrariness / Rudolf Engler -- Isomorphism in the grammatical code / Talmy Givón -- The iconic pattern in the transmission of identity / Roberto Ajello -- The iconic index from sound change to rhyming slang / Raimo Anttila and Sheila Embleton -- Iconicity in grammaticalization processes / Anna Giacalone Ramat -- Iconicity between indicativity and predicativity / Hansjakob Seiler -- Iconic aspects of syntax / Raffaele Simone -- Iconicity in multi-ethnic communication / Franca Orletti -- Morphological markedness in second language acquisition / Monica Berretta -- Signs, "lines," and "planes" for time and space in Italian sign language / Elena Pizzuto ... [et al.] -- Iconicity in co-verbal gestures in aphasics / Isabella Poggi and Emanuela Magno -- Iconicity in children's first written texts / Clotilde Pontecorvo
