Sign, Meaning, Society

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE VII
3. PROGRAM AND TABLE OF CONTENTS IX
4. Figures XXIII
5. Monday, August 27, 1962 (M.I.T.)
6. 9 . 0 0 a . m . OPENING SESSION
7. President of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Welcoming Remarks 1
8. President of The Ninth International Congress of Linguists, Introductory Remarks 4
9. Secretary General of The Ninth International Congress, Quelques mots d'accueil 8
10. 10.15 a . m . PLENARY SESSION
11. On the Methods of Internal Reconstruction 9
12. Discussion 31
13. 2 . 1 5 p . m . SECTION MEETINGS
14. SECTION A: MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS
15. A Statistical Study of English Syntax 37
16. Measures of Linguistic Divergence 44
17. Mathematics of Genealogical Relationships Between Languages 51
18. Discussion 58
19. Mathematical Linguistics - A Trend in Name or in Fact? 61
20. Discussion 67
21. SECTION B: PHONETICS AND PHONEMICS
22. Aspects et fonctions linguistiques des variations mélodiques dans la chaîne parlée 72
23. Minimal Systems, Potential Distinctions, and Primitive Structures 78
24. Discussion 84
25. Stress, Juncture, and Syllabification in Phonemic Description 85
26. Discussion 93
27. Pattern Fringe and the Evaluation of Phonological Analyses 94
28. Discussion 100
29. Pleniphonetic Transcription in Phonetic Analysis 101
30. Discussion 107
31. SECTION C: LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY
32. Dialect Borders and Linguistic Systems 109
33. Structure and Typology of Dialectal Differentiation 115
34. Discussion 122
35. Remarques sur quelques isoglosses dialectales 130
36. Discussion 134
37. Interrelation between Regional and Social Dialects 135
38. Discussion 143
39. Tuesday, August 28, 1962 at (M.I.T.)
40. 9 . 0 0 a . m . GROUP MEETINGS
41. 1. Linguistic Theory
42. On Systems of Grammatical Structure: Studies in New Guinea and South America 145
43. Discussion 153
44. Concerning the Logical Basis of Linguistic Theory 155
45. Discussion 160
46. 2. Theory of Syntax, I
47. On the Fundamentals of Sentence Structure 161
48. Fundamentals of Syntax 166
49. Discussion 171
50. Is There an Interlingual Element in Syntax?. 176
51. 3. Chinese, I
52. Some Syntactic Rules for Mandarin 191
53. Bipartite Division of Syllables in Chinese Phonology 203
54. 4. Phonological Descriptions of Languages, I
55. The Significance of Accentuation in English Words 204
56. The Nasal Vowel Phonemes of French: a Case History 211
57. Spanish L.L., y and rr in Buenos Aires and Corrientes 212
58. Discussion 216
59. 5. Language Teaching
60. English Syntax Problems of Filipinos and the Principles of Linguistic Relativity 217
61. Discussion 223
62. Learning Problems involving Italian [s], [z] and English /s/, /z/ 224
63. Discussion 226
64. 6. Theory of Morphology
65. On the Use of Zero in Morphemics 228
66. Discussion 230
67. 7. Glottochronology
68. The Fallacy of a Universal List of Basic Vocabulary 232
69. Glottochronology with Retention-rate Inhomogeneity 237
70. On the Validity of Comparative Lexicostatistics 238
71. Discussion 247
72. 8. Dialects and Dialectology
73. Le renouvellement des méthodes en linguistique géographique 253
74. Discussion 257
75. New Methods to Interpret Linguistic Maps 259
76. Discussion 259
77. 9. Varia, I
78. La teoria Crociana e la linguistica strutturale 260
79. Sign, Meaning, Society 261
80. On Some Traces of the Unknown Language- Substratum in the Northern Uralic Languages 263
81. 10.15 a . m . PLENARY SESSION
82. Les niveaux de l'analyse linguistique 266
83. Discussion 275
84. 2 . 1 5 p . m . SECTION MEETINGS
85. SECTION A: STYLISTICS
86. The Description of a Poem 294
87. Discussion 301
88. The Linguistic Study of Literary Texts 302
89. Discussion 307
90. Poetry and Grammaticalness 308
91. Discussion 314
92. The Stylistic Function 316
93. Discussion 322
94. Styles as Dialects 324
95. Discussion 330
96. SECTION B: MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONEMICS
97. Compounding as a Phonological Process 331
98. Discussion 337
99. Grammatical Categories and Their Phonetic Exponents 338
100. Discussion 344
101. Mohawk Prefix Generation 346
102. Discussion 355
103. Theory and Practice in Morpheme Identification 358
104. Discussion 364
105. SECTION C: LANGUAGES IN CONTACT
106. Some Aspects of Bilingualism among Cultured People in Catalonia 366
107. Discussion 373
108. Stylistic Aspects of Borrowing: a Stylistic and Comparative View of American Elements in Modern German, and British English 374
109. Discussion 381
110. The Proliferation and Extension of Bantu Phonemic Systems influenced by Bushman and Hottentot 382
111. Discussion 390
112. Transfert du système phonologique de Blaesheim sur une autre langue, le français 392
113. Wednesday, August 29, 1962 (at Harvard) 398
114. Thursday, August 30,1962 (at M.I.T.) 533
115. Friday, August 31, 1962 (at Harvard) 758
116. LIST OF MEMBERS 1145
117. INDEX OF AUTHORS 1172
118. Backmatter 1175