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In:Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb
Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries and James E. Copeland
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 163] 2000
► pp. v–xii

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Published online: 15 March 2000
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Table of contents

Introductionxiii
Biographical Sketch of Sydney MacDonald Lambxix
Published Works of Sydney M. Lambxxv
Part I. Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice
A. Cognitive Approaches: Theory
1. Valence and Phraseology in Stratificational Linguistics3
2. A Neural Network Model of Language Production23
3. From Reticula to Trees: A Computerizable Model of Transduction from Semology to Lexology35
4. Neurological Evidence for the Existence of an Autonomous Lexicon49
5. Luminous Loci in Lex-Eco-Memory: Toward a Pragmo-Ecological Resolution of the Metaphysical Debate Concerning the Reality or Fictitiousness of Words59
6. The Logic of Anataxis81
7. The Dilemma of the Welsh Sentence Particle: Empiricism in Stratificational Linguistics105
B. Related Approaches: Theory
8. The Development of Adequate Formalism in Linguistics125
9. Parsing with a Chart and its Efficiency147
10. Language as Human Action159
11. Some Hermeneutic Observations on Textlinguistics and Text Theory in the Humanities169
12. The Schemata for Motion and Action: A Typological Consideration185
13. The Iconicity of Consonant Alternation199
C. Functional Language Description
14. Grammar and Daily Life: Concurrence and Complementarity221
15. Translation and Text-Analysis239
16. Cognitive Networks in Conversation253
17. Some Stratificational Insights Concerning the English Noun Phrase267
18. Some Peculiar Adjectives in the English Nominal Group289
19. The ist- Prefix in Alabama323
20. Attention to Microspace: Plotting the Connections of a Cultural Theme347
21. Toward Kawaiisu Poetics369
22. The Effect of Rate of Speech on Laryngeal Timing in Medial Stops in Mongolian391
Part II. Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics
A. Language Change: General Studies
23. Change — Linguistic and Societal405
24. From First to Second Person: The History of Amerind *k(i)413
25. The Grammaticalization of Lexicalized Manual Gesture in Tarahumara427
26. Investigating Syntactic Change through Synchronic Textual Comparison: A Case Study445
27. The Ablauts of l465
B. Language Change: Lexicon and Culture
28. Notes On Hispanisms: California481
29. Slang and Lexicography499
30. On Sugar, Sumac and Sewers513
31. Why Kaka and Aya?521
C. History of Linguistics and Culture
32. Medieval Views on the World and Nature529
33. Linguistics in India: Past and Future545
34. Some Reflections of Vico in Semiotics555
35. The Forerunners of Scientific Phonology: Diacritical Marks and Other Reforms in Orthography569
36. Early MT Research at M.I.T.: The Search for Context593
Index629
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