In this paper we present a corpus analysis of the influence of sequential iconicity on the linear
order of German irreversible binomials. The analysis provides evidence for the thesis that
semantic and pragmatic factors determining the linear order of binomials can be interpreted as
examples of sequential iconicity which subsumes several cases of iconic coding: the linear
order of linguistic units reflecting the structure of the extralinguistic reality, the cognitive processes
and the sociocultural coding.
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affiliation:
Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Germańskiej