Product Description: The renowned Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure conceived of language as a system of signs, invoking conventional associations of form and meaning. Modern work on grammatical theory has taken a very different approach, focusing instead on the hierarchical relations that constitute sentence structures: in this approach, sentences have meanings, but the linguistic patterns that create them do not...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together 17 papers resulting from the third conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL 3), held at the University of Colorado at Boulder in May 1997. Since the first CSDL conference held in San Diego in 1994, the CSDL series has created a spirited forum for exchange between practitioners of cognitive and functional linguistics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)