books.google.co.uk - This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, 'Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?' The greater part of the papers (Sections 1-3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not arbitrary,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Motivation_in_Language.html?id=qzhJ3KpLpQUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMotivation in Language