Approaches to Language

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Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE Introductory -- Introduction / McCORMACK, WILLIAM C. -- SECTION TWO Language Sameness: Genetic, Historical, and Contact -- Generative Approaches to Historical Linguistics / COOK, EUNG-DO -- Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin? / RAUCH, IRMENGARD -- Language Death, Language Contact, and Language Evolution / HILL, JANE H. -- The Languages Within Language: Toward a Paleontological Approach of Verbal Communication / FÓNAGY, IVAN -- Pidginization, Creolization, and the "Naturalness" Hypothesis / TRAUGOTT, ELIZABETH CLOSS -- Correlative Linguistics / KELKAR, ASHOK R. -- SECTION THREE Languages: Areas and Influences -- The Emerging Linguistic Picture and Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwestern Pacific / WURM, S. A. -- Quichean Linguistics and Philology / CAMPBELL, LYLE -- Morphemes of Southern Quechua and Their Influence on Spanish / HASLER, JUAN A. -- Unstudied Ethnographic Areas of the Sepik Basin, New Guinea / LAYCOCK, DONALD C. -- The Aztec System of Writing: Problems of Research / GALARZA, JOAQUÍN -- SECTION FOUR Language, Thought, and Systems -- Clauses and Cases in Southeast Asian Languages and Thought / LIEM, NGUYEN DANG -- Identification and Grammatical Structure in Akan and Welsh / ELLIS, JEFFREY -- Abstractness of Phonology and Blackfoot Orthography Design / FRANTZ, DONALD G. -- Pragmo-Ecological Grammar (PEG): Toward a New Synthesis of Linguistics and Anthropology / MAKKAI, ADAM -- Common Cognitive Elements in Combined Verbs (Bengali, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesian, and Vietnamese) / SEN-GUPTA, SUNIL -- Linguistic Anthropology and the Innatist Fallacy / FERNÁNDEZ-GUIZZETTI, GERMÁN -- SECTION FIVE Lexicon, Semantics, and Function -- Linguistic Reconstruction and History / WALD, LUCIA -- Lexical Change in Philippine Creole Spanish / MOLONY, CAROL H. -- Semantic Categories in the Names of Algonquian Waterways / GREEN, EUGENE / MILLWARD, CELIA M. -- The Aztec Day Names / LANDAR, HERBERT -- The Intransitive Marker "t" in Eskimo / KOO, JANG H. -- "Stone," "Hammer" and "Heaven" in Indo-European Languages and Cosmology / MAHER, J. PETER -- Francois-Xavier Garneau, England, and France: An Essay on Historical Lexicography / CHEVRETTE, LOUIS A. -- Structural Analysis of Terms for Parts of the Body in Serbo-Croatian / LISTON, JERRY L. -- SECTION SIX Language: Social Factors and Setting -- Socioeconomic Factors in Language Split: The Case of the Lapp "Dialects" versus the Baltic-Finnic "Languages" / ANTTILA, RAIMO -- On the Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew / BAR-ADON, AARON -- The Extent of Multilayer Influences on the Gagauz Language / BASKAKOV, N. A. -- Yanomama Diglossia / MIGLIAZZA, ERNEST C. -- Prescriptive Grammar: A Reappraisal / NEWMEYER, FREDERICK J. -- Linguistic Adaptation to Speech Function / SAMARIN, WILLIAM J. -- Language Competence and Culture Transmission / PATTANAYAK, D. P. -- The Ethnography of Communication and the Teaching of Languages / ROULET, E. -- SECTION SEVEN Discussion -- Summary of Discussion / WURM, S. A. -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects