By Madeleine Halmøy
This research offers a unified, monetary account of the complex dating among shape, that means and interpretation within the Norwegian nominal procedure - irrespective of polysemy. It covers every kind of nominal symptoms, i.e. nouns, adjectives, pronouns and determiners, in addition to the conventionalised syntactic combos among them. between its critical techniques is the creation of the function common quantity into Norwegian morphology.
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Le principe […] domine toute la linguistique de la langue ; ses conséquences sont innombrables” 7 (Saussure 1916: 100). Since both facets of the sign are (independently) arbitrary, the relation between them is also necessarily so. Nevertheless, once this relation is established through social convention, it can no longer be broken or altered by an individual’s act or will. The conventions which constitute a language, Saussure insists, are different from other social conventions in that they are necessary.
The principle of arbitrariness is not merely a simple observation from comparing different languages or the comparison of closely related lexical items such as French mouton and English sheep. Rather, the principle of arbitrariness falls out as a consequence of the substances combined in language, of human biology. As Bouchard (2002, 2013) insists, arbitrariness and the linguistic variation that it engenders derive from the physiological and conceptual makeup of human beings. Moreover, everything else in language and linguistic theory depends on and is related to this radical arbitrariness and the two heterogeneous substances combined in the sign.
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