Functional approaches to language, culture, and cognition : papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb / [edited by] David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries, James E. Copeland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamb, Sydney M.

Lockwood, David G.

Fries, Peter Howard.

Copeland, James E.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 163.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 163

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Cognitive grammar.

Historical linguistics.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 656 p. : ill., 1 port.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : Benjamins, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COGNITION

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Picture: Sidney M. Lamb at home

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Introduction

Biographical Sketch of Sydney MacDonald Lamb

Published Works of Sydney M. Lamb

PART I: Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice

A. Cognitive Approaches: Theory

Chapter 1. Valence and Phraseology in Stratificational Linguistics

Chapter 2. A Neural Network Model of Language Production

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

Chapter 4. Neurological Evidence for the Existence of an Autonomous Lexicon

Chapter 5. Luminous Loci in Lex-Eco-Memory

Chapter 6. The Logic of Anataxis

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

B. Related Approaches: Theory

Chapter 8. The Development Of Adequate Formalism In Linguistics

Chapter 9. Parsing with a Chart and its Efficiency

Chapter 10. Language as Human Action

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

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

Chapter 13. The Iconicity of Consonant Alternation

C. Functional Language Description

Chapter 14. Grammar and Daily Life: Concurrence and Complementarity

Chapter 15. Translation and Text-Analysis

Chapter 16. Cognitive Networks in Conversation

Chapter 16. Some Stratificational Insights Concerning the English Noun Phrase

Chapter 17. Some Peculiar Adjectives in the English Nominal Group

Chapter 19. The ist- Prefix in Alabama

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

Chapter 21. Toward Kawaiisu Poetics.

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

PART II: Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics

A. Language Change: General Studies

Chapter 23. Change - Linguistic and Societal

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

Chapter 25. The Grammaticalization of Lexicalized Manual Gesture in Tarahumara

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

Chapter 27. The Ablauts of l

B. Language Change: Lexicon and Culture

Chapter 28. Notes on Hispanisms: California

Chapter 29. Slang and Lexicography

Chapter 30. On Sugar, Sumac and Sewers

Chapter 31. Why Kaka and Aya?

C. History of Linguistics and Culture

Chapter 32. Medieval Views on the World and Nature

Chapter 33. Linguistics in India: Past and Future

Chapter 34. Some Reflections of Vico in Semiotics

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

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

Index

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612163814

9781282163812

1282163817

9789027299680

9027299684

OCLC:

70765371