onalists hold the same view as the cognitive linguists. For example, РHalliday contents, “the relation between the meaning and the wording is not, however, an Рarbitrary one; the form of the grammar relates naturally to the meaning that are being Рencoded.”[4]p43 In sum, the scope of iconicity has been broadening since Roman Jakobson. РMore and more phenomena of iconicity are being explored at the levels of morphology, Рsyntax, text and in the domain of language change. Many linguists, such as Haiman, Langaker Рexplicate iconicity in their works. Haiman’s work on the iconicity in syntax has had a great Рeffect on the study in this area. He claim “that many (if not all) of the formal universals of Рgrammar which now engage the attention of most syntactic theoreticians will, if valid, be Р 5
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