DEIXIS, GRAMMAR, AND CULTURE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction and Preview -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Preview- Person Forms, Free and as Noun Inflections -- 1.2 Language Data -- 1.3 Preliminary Analysis -- CHAPTER 2. Language Evolution -- 2.1 Protagonists -- 2.1.1 Philosophers -- 2.1.2 Cognitive Psychologists -- 2.1.3 Anthropological Linguists -- 2.1.4 Linguists -- 2.1.5 Summary -- 2.2 Antagonists -- 2.2.1 Hallpike -- 2.2.2 Boas -- 2.2.3 Sapir and Whorf -- 2.2.4 The Voegelins -- 2.2.5 Greenberg -- CHAPTER 3. Cultural Complexity -- 3.1 Culture -- 3.2 The Evolution of Culture -- 3.2.1 Proponents -- 3.3 Disclaimers -- 3.4 The Historical Sense of Cultural Evolution -- 3.5 Scales of Cultural Complexity -- 3.6 Stages of Cultural Complexity -- CHAPTER 4. Language/Culture Dimensions -- 4.1 Standard Language -- 4.2 Social Stratification and Language Differences -- 4.3 Written/spoken Language -- 4.3.1 Linguistic differences -- 4.3.2 Functional differences -- 4.4 Summary -- CHAPTER 5. Linguistic Evolution -- 5.1 Cultural/communicative changes -- 5.2 Grammaticization -- 5.2.1 Heine and Reh -- 5.2.2 Bybee and Pagliuca -- 5.2.3 Jakobson -- 5.2.4 Searle -- 5.3 Deixis -- 5.3.1 The Deictic Distinction -- 5.3.2 Deictic Categories -- 5.4 Syntax -- 5.5 Deixis, syntax, and cultural complexity -- 5.6 Cybernetic Control Perspective -- 5.6.1 Powers and Cybernetic Control -- 5.6.2 Cybernetic Control and Communication -- CHAPTER 6. Hologeistic Methodology -- 6.1 The Hologeistic Method -- 6.2 Statistics -- 6.3 Bias -- 6.4 Galton's Problem -- 6.5 Exceptions -- 6.6 Variable Types and Measures of Association -- CHAPTER 7. Sampling -- 7.1 Why sample? -- 7.2 Sampling Units -- 7.3 Bibliography Sources -- 7.4 Language Areas -- 7.5 Probability Sampling -- 7.6 Stratified Sampling.

7.7 Sampling Strategy -- CHAPTER 8. Coding Criteria -- 8.1 Deictic Variables -- 8.1.1 The Relevant Forms -- 8.1.2 Person -- 8.2.3 Duals -- 8.2.4 Inclusive/exclusives -- 8.2.5 Demonstratives -- 8.2.6 Tense -- 8.2.7 Gender -- 8.2 Cultural Complexity Variable -- 8.3 Control Variables -- CHAPTER 9. Results -- 9.1 Initial Results. -- 9.2 Deictic Associations and Scales -- 9.3 Deictic Scales and Cultural Complexity -- CHAPTER 10. Methodological Controls -- 10.1 World-wide Scope of Results -- 10.2 Borrowing Effects -- 10.3 Controlling for Borrowing -- 10.4 Sampling Issues -- 10.5 Other Control Variables -- CHAPTER 11. Extensions and Conclusions -- 11.1 Grammaticized Deictic Interrelationships -- 11.2 The curvilinear relationship -- 11.3 Noun Phrase Relativizability -- 11.4 Lexical Deixis -- 11.5 Summary -- 11.6 A Final Word -- APPENDIX 1. Free Person and Noun Person Distinctions -- APPENDIX 2. Linguistic Variables- Sources and Codes -- APPENDIX 3. Languages,Affiliations, & Culture Groups -- APPENDIX 4. Sampling Notes -- APPENDIX 5. Cultural Complexity -- APPENDIX 6. Codings -- APPENDIX 7. Sample Summary Scores -- APPENDIX 8. Spatial autocorrelation Alignments -- APPENDIX 9. Sub-sample Scores -- APPENDIX 10. Keenan-Comrie Scores -- Bibliography -- Index.