TY - BOOK ID - 8771438 TI - Invariance, markedness and distinctive feature analysis : a contrastive study of sign systems in English and Hebrew PY - 1994 SN - 9027236143 9786613312884 1283312883 9027276749 9789027276742 9781283312882 6613312886 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Distinctive features (Linguistics) KW - English language KW - Hebrew language KW - Language and languages KW - Markedness (Linguistics) KW - Marked member (Linguistics) KW - Generative grammar KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Linguistics KW - Characterology of speech KW - Language diversity KW - Language subsystems KW - Language variation KW - Linguistic diversity KW - Variation in language KW - Jewish language KW - Jews KW - Semitic languages, Northwest KW - Germanic languages KW - Componential analysis (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative&delete& KW - Hebrew KW - English KW - Variation KW - Languages KW - Phonology KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Hebrew. KW - English. KW - Variation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8771438 AB - This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages - English and Hebrew - based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language despite the fact that they share the same familiar classifications and labels.Tobin demonstrates how and why traditional and modern syntactic categories such as grammatical number; verb tense, aspect, mood and voice; conditionals and interrogatives; etc., are not equivalent across languages. It is argu ER -