The main purpose of this thesis is intended to provide some linguistic appropriateness or adequacy of the classification of the English article In this thesis, several different classifications of the English article have been treated under the following topics (1) four types classified by Huebner(1985), (2) the fifth type explained by Yoko Goto(1999) and (3) the sixth t..
The connection between sound and meaning is essentially arbitrary There is, however, growing evidence that language contains many elements which are sound-symbolic-that is, non-arbitrary Sound symbolism plays a considerably larger role in language than scholarship has hitherto recognized In terms of evolution, the value of a sound-symbolic basis to communication is fair..