Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition

Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb

Editors

David G. Lockwood | Michigan State University

Peter H. Fries | Central Michigan University

James E. Copeland | Rice University

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ISBN 9789027236685 (Eur) | EUR 162.00

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This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is organized into two sections.
The first section ‘Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice’ starts with contributions developing a Stratificational model; these are followed by contributions focusing on some related functional model of language; and by articles describing some particular set of language phenomena.
In the second section ‘Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics’ general studies of language change are addressed first; a second group of contributions examines language change, lexicon and culture; and the last cluster of contributions treats the history of linguistics and culture.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.163

Table of Contents

Introduction

James E. Copeland | p. xiii

Biographical Sketch of Sydney MacDonald Lamb

David G. Lockwood | p. xix

Published Works of Sydney M. Lamb

David G. Lockwood and Sydney M. Lamb | p. xxv

1. Valence and Phraseology in Stratificational Linguistics

Ernst-August Müller | p. 3

2. A Neural Network Model of Language Production

William M. Christie | p. 23

3. From Reticula to Trees: A Computerizable Model of Transduction from Semology to Lexology

Earl M. Herrick | p. 35

4. Neurological Evidence for the Existence of an Autonomous Lexicon

Timothy J. Pulju | p. 49

5. Luminous Loci in Lex-Eco-Memory: Toward a Pragmo-Ecological Resolution of the Metaphysical Debate Concerning the Reality or Fictitiousness of Words

Adam Makkai | p. 59

6. The Logic of Anataxis

William J. Sullivan | p. 81

7. The Dilemma of the Welsh Sentence Particle: Empiricism in Stratificational Linguistics

Toby D. Griffen | p. 105

B. Related Approaches: Theory

8. The Development of Adequate Formalism in Linguistics

Winfred P. Lehmann | p. 125

9. Parsing with a Chart and its Efficiency

Chang-In Lee | p. 147

10. Language as Human Action

Jonathan J. Webster | p. 159

11. Some Hermeneutic Observations on Textlinguistics and Text Theory in the Humanities

Robert E. Longacre | p. 169

12. The Schemata for Motion and Action: A Typological Consideration

Yoshihiko Ikegami | p. 185

13. The Iconicity of Consonant Alternation

Roger W. Wescott | p. 199

C. Functional Language Description

14. Grammar and Daily Life: Concurrence and Complementarity

M.A.K. Halliday | p. 221

15. Translation and Text-Analysis

Katharina Barbe | p. 239

16. Cognitive Networks in Conversation

Cynthia Ford Meyer | p. 253

17. Some Stratificational Insights Concerning the English Noun Phrase

David G. Lockwood | p. 267

18. Some Peculiar Adjectives in the English Nominal Group

Peter H. Fries | p. 289

19. The ist- Prefix in Alabama

Heather K. Hardy and Philip W. Davis | p. 323

20. Attention to Microspace: Plotting the Connections of a Cultural Theme

John Regan, Nancy Pine and Joe Stephenson | p. 347

21. Toward Kawaiisu Poetics

Dell H. Hymes | p. 369

22. The Effect of Rate of Speech on Laryngeal Timing in Medial Stops in Mongolian

Henry Rogers | p. 391

23. Change — Linguistic and Societal

Robert Austerlitz | p. 405

24. From First to Second Person: The History of Amerind *k(i)

Joseph H. Greenberg | p. 413

25. The Grammaticalization of Lexicalized Manual Gesture in Tarahumara

James E. Copeland | p. 427

26. Investigating Syntactic Change through Synchronic Textual Comparison: A Case Study

David C. Bennett | p. 445

27. The Ablauts of l

Carleton T. Hodge | p. 465

B. Language Change: Lexicon and Culture

28. Notes On Hispanisms: California

William Bright | p. 481

29. Slang and Lexicography

Connie Eble | p. 499

30. On Sugar, Sumac and Sewers

Fred W. Householder | p. 513

31. Why Kaka and Aya?

Merritt Ruhlen | p. 521

C. History of Linguistics and Culture

32. Medieval Views on the World and Nature

Edgar C. Polomé | p. 529

33. Linguistics in India: Past and Future

Murray B. Emeneau | p. 545

34. Some Reflections of Vico in Semiotics

Thomas A. Sebeok | p. 555

35. The Forerunners of Scientific Phonology: Diacritical Marks and Other Reforms in Orthography

Saul Levin | p. 569

36. Early MT Research at M.I.T.: The Search for Context

Victor H. Yngve | p. 593

Index | p. 629

“I would recommend this book to all linguists [...] both for the breadth of its subject matter and for the overview it affords of some key aspects of American fuctionalism.”

Inge Genee, in General Linguistics, Vol. 42 (2004)

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