General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO: LANGUAGE SAMENESS: GENETIC, HISTORICAL, AND CONTACT -- Generative Approaches to Historical Linguistics -- Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin? -- Language Death, Language Contact, and Language Evolution -- The Languages Within Language: Toward a Paleontological Approach of Verbal Communication -- Pidginization, Creolization, and the "Naturalness" Hypothesis -- Correlative Linguistics -- SECTION THREE: LANGUAGES: AREAS AND INFLUENCES -- The Emerging Linguistic Picture and Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwestern Pacific -- Quichean Linguistics and Philology -- Morphemes of Southern Quechua and Their Influence on Spanish -- Unstudied Ethnographic Areas of the Sepik Basin, New Guinea -- The Aztec System of Writing: Problems of Research -- SECTION FOUR: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND SYSTEMS -- Clauses and Cases in Southeast Asian Languages and Thought -- Identification and Grammatical Structure in Akan and Welsh -- Abstractness of Phonology and Blackfoot Orthography Design -- Pragmo-Ecological Grammar (PEG): Toward a New Synthesis of Linguistics and Anthropology -- Common Cognitive Elements in Combined Verbs (Bengali, Khmer, Bahasa Indonesian, and Vietnamese) -- Linguistic Anthropology and the Innatist Fallacy -- SECTION FIVE: LEXICON, SEMANTICS, AND FUNCTION -- Linguistic Reconstruction and History -- Lexical Change in Philippine Creole Spanish -- Semantic Categories in the Names of Algonquian Waterways -- The Aztec Day Names -- The Intransitive Marker "t" in Eskimo -- "Stone," "Hammer," and "Heaven" in Indo-European Languages and Cosmology -- England, and France: An Essay on Historical Lexicography -- Structural Analysis of Terms for Parts of the Body in Serbo-Croatian -- SECTION SIX: LANGUAGE: SOCIAL FACTORS AND SETTING.

Socioeconomic Factors in Language Split: The Case of the Lapp "Dialects" versus the Baltic-Finnic "Languages" -- On the Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew -- The Extent of Multilayer Influences on the Gagauz Language -- Yanomama Diglossia -- Prescriptive Grammar: A Reappraisal -- Linguistic Adaptation to Speech Function -- Language Competence and Culture Transmission -- The Ethnography of Communication and the Teaching of Languages -- SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.