Table of contents
Chapter 1. The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure
An overview
1–28
Grammar and culture
Chapter 2. On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure
31–44
Chapter 3. The body, the universe, society and language
Germanic in the grip of the unknown
45–76
Chapter 4. When culture grammaticalizes
The pronominal system of Onya Darat
77–98
Chapter 5. The cultural bases of linguistic form
The development of Nanti quotative evidentials
99–130
Grammar and society
Chapter 6. Societies of intimates and linguistic complexity
133–148
Chapter 7. On the relation between linguistic and social factors in migrant language contact
149–176
Grammar and geography
Chapter 8. Topography in language
Absolute Frame of Reference and the Topographic Correspondence Hypothesis
177–226
Chapter 9. Walk around the clock
The shaping of a (counter-)clockwise distinction in Siar directionals
227–260
Chapter 10. Types of spread zones
Open and closed, horizontal and vertical
261–286
Grammar and evolution
Chapter 11. The role of adaptation in understanding linguistic diversity
289–316
Grammar and the field of linguistics
Chapter 12. On becoming an object of study
Legitimization in the discipline of Linguistics
319–352
Subjects and Languages Index
353–366
Author Index
367–370
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