August Fenk
List of John Benjamins publications for which August Fenk plays a role.
Articles
2008 Complexity trade-offs between the subsystems of language Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 43–65 | Article
Starting from a view on language as a combinatorial and hierarchically organized system we assumed that a high syllable complexity would favour a high number of syllable types, which in turn would favour a high number of monosyllables. Relevant cross-linguistic correlations based on Menzerath’s… read more
2002 8. The clausal structure of linguistic and pre-linguistic behavior The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language, Givón, T. and Bertram F. Malle (eds.), pp. 215–229 | Chapter
1998 Symbols and icons in diagrammatic representation The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences, Kronfeld, Amichai and Lawrence D. Roberts (eds.), pp. 301–334 | Article
The distinction between symbolizing, i.e., representing concepts or propositions, and simulating allows a simple description of (a) representations where symbolizing and simulating coincide ("iconic symbols", like in pictograms and onomato-poetic words), (b) representations realizing simulating and… read more