Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction xiii
4. Biographical Sketch of Sydney MacDonald Lamb xix
5. Published Works of Sydney M. Lamb xxv
6. Part I. Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice
7. A. Cognitive Approaches: Theory
8. 1. Valence and Phraseology in Stratificational Linguistics 3
9. 2. A Neural Network Model of Language Production 23
10. 3. From Reticula to Trees: A Computerizable Model of Transduction from Semology to Lexology 35
11. 4. Neurological Evidence for the Existence of an Autonomous Lexicon 49
12. 5. Luminous Loci in Lex-Eco-Memory: Toward a Pragmo-Ecological Resolution of the Metaphysical Debate Concerning the Reality or Fictitiousness of Words 59
13. 6. The Logic of Anataxis 81
14. 7. The Dilemma of the Welsh Sentence Particle: Empiricism in Stratificational Linguistics 105
15. B. Related Approaches: Theory
16. 8. The Development of Adequate Formalism in Linguistics 125
17. 9. Parsing with a Chart and its Efficiency 147
18. 10. Language as Human Action 159
19. 11. Some Hermeneutic Observations on Textlinguistics and Text Theory in the Humanities 169
20. 12. The Schemata for Motion and Action: A Typological Consideration 185
21. 13. The Iconicity of Consonant Alternation 199
22. C. Functional Language Description
23. 14. Grammar and Daily Life: Concurrence and Complementarity 221
24. 15. Translation and Text-Analysis 239
25. 16. Cognitive Networks in Conversation 253
26. 17. Some Stratificational Insights Concerning the English Noun Phrase 267
27. 18. Some Peculiar Adjectives in the English Nominal Group 289
28. 19. The ist- Prefix in Alabama 323
29. 20. Attention to Microspace: Plotting the Connections of a Cultural Theme 347
30. 21. Toward Kawaiisu Poetics 369
31. 22. The Effect of Rate of Speech on Laryngeal Timing in Medial Stops in Mongolian 391
32. Part II. Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics
33. A. Language Change: General Studies
34. 23. Change — Linguistic and Societal 405
35. 24. From First to Second Person: The History of Amerind *k(i) 413
36. 25. The Grammaticalization of Lexicalized Manual Gesture in Tarahumara 427
37. 26. Investigating Syntactic Change through Synchronic Textual Comparison: A Case Study 445
38. 27. The Ablauts of l 465
39. B. Language Change: Lexicon and Culture
40. 28. Notes On Hispanisms: California 481
41. 29. Slang and Lexicography 499
42. 30. On Sugar, Sumac and Sewers 513
43. 31. Why Kaka and Aya? 521
44. C. History of Linguistics and Culture
45. 32. Medieval Views on the World and Nature 529
46. 33. Linguistics in India: Past and Future 545
47. 34. Some Reflections of Vico in Semiotics 555
48. 35. The Forerunners of Scientific Phonology: Diacritical Marks and Other Reforms in Orthography 569
49. 36. Early MT Research at M.I.T.: The Search for Context 593
50. Index 629