Index of Subjects

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Preface IX
4. SECTION ONE Introductory
5. Introduction 3
6. SECTION TWO Language Sameness: Genetic, Historical, and Contact
7. Generative Approaches to Historical Linguistics 17
8. Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin? 33
9. Language Death, Language Contact, and Language Evolution 45
10. The Languages Within Language: Toward a Paleontological Approach of Verbal Communication 79
11. Pidginization, Creolization, and the "Naturalness" Hypothesis 135
12. Correlative Linguistics 151
13. SECTION THREE Languages: Areas and Influences
14. The Emerging Linguistic Picture and Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwestern Pacific 191
15. Quichean Linguistics and Philology 223
16. Morphemes of Southern Quechua and Their Influence on Spanish 235
17. Unstudied Ethnographic Areas of the Sepik Basin, New Guinea 245
18. The Aztec System of Writing: Problems of Research 271
19. SECTION FOUR Language, Thought, and Systems
20. Clauses and Cases in Southeast Asian Languages and Thought 279
21. Identification and Grammatical Structure in Akan and Welsh 297
22. Abstractness of Phonology and Blackfoot Orthography Design 307
23. Pragmo-Ecological Grammar (PEG): Toward a New Synthesis of Linguistics and Anthropology 327
24. Common Cognitive Elements in Combined Verbs (Bengali, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesian, and Vietnamese) 363
25. Linguistic Anthropology and the Innatist Fallacy 371
26. SECTION FIVE Lexicon, Semantics, and Function
27. Linguistic Reconstruction and History 391
28. Lexical Change in Philippine Creole Spanish 401
29. Semantic Categories in the Names of Algonquian Waterways 417
30. The Aztec Day Names 435
31. The Intransitive Marker "t" in Eskimo 451
32. "Stone," "Hammer" and "Heaven" in Indo-European Languages and Cosmology 457
33. Francois-Xavier Garneau, England, and France: An Essay on Historical Lexicography 483
34. Structural Analysis of Terms for Parts of the Body in Serbo-Croatian 507
35. SECTION SIX Language: Social Factors and Setting
36. Socioeconomic Factors in Language Split: The Case of the Lapp "Dialects" versus the Baltic-Finnic "Languages" 525
37. On the Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew 531
38. The Extent of Multilayer Influences on the Gagauz Language 553
39. Yanomama Diglossia 561
40. Prescriptive Grammar: A Reappraisal 581
41. Linguistic Adaptation to Speech Function 595
42. Language Competence and Culture Transmission 615
43. The Ethnography of Communication and the Teaching of Languages 623
44. SECTION SEVEN Discussion
45. Summary of Discussion 639
46. Biographical Notes 647
47. Index of Names 659
48. Index of Subjects 665