Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Validation in linguistics -- 3. Characteristics of objectively observable testing -- 4. Conclusion: This volume -- References -- Part I Independent evidence in grammar -- The distribution of linguistic forms and textual structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recent studies -- 3. Hypothesis -- 4. Communicative strategies of the use of the Indicative and the Subjunctive -- 4.1 The French occurrence system and the encoder's commitment -- 4.2 The occurrence system and a departure from the norm -- 5. Two approaches to textual analysis -- 5.1 Non-random textual structure -- 5.2 "From sign to text" approach -- 5.3 Antigone -- 5.4 "From text to sign" approach -- 5.5 Le Malentendu (The misunderstanding) -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Corpus -- Semantic regularities of the so-called irregular Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) nominal (umlaut) and verbal (ablaut) forms in Old and Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. IVA through the sign-oriented perspective -- 3. Historical background -- 4. Phonological systematization of IVA in nominal plural forms -- 5. The semantically marked feature of IVA noun plurals -- 6. The phonological systematization of IVA in verbal past tense forms -- 7. The semantically marked features of IVA verbal past tense forms -- 8. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Al hablar, se alterna hablando -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some theoretical considerations -- 3. The forms and their meanings -- 4. The data -- 5. Analysis -- 5.1 Distance of the alternating forms with respect to the beginning of the clause, and with respect to the inflected verb -- 5.2 Transitivity of the alternating forms -- 5.3 Contexts neutral to variation -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- References.

Instructional meanings, iconicity, and l'arbitraire du signe in the analysis of the Afrikaans demonstratives -- 1. Introduction: On instructional meanings -- 2. The Afrikaans demonstratives: Forms and uses -- 3. The deictic system -- 3.1 The hypothesis -- 3.2 One dié or two -- 3.3 How dié can communicate proximity without explicitly signaling it -- 3.4 More on the opposition between hierdie and dié -- 4. Quantitative data on the use of the demonstratives in discourse -- 5. Additional qualitative data -- 6. Alternative analyses -- 6.1 Peeling off prosody but retaining deixis -- 6.2 Peeling off prosody and rejecting deixis -- 6.3 Keeping prosody but splitting adjective and pronoun -- 7. Theoretical considerations and conclusions -- References -- Afrikaans corpora and published translations -- Focus system of the Japanese benefactive auxiliaries kureru and morau -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies -- 2.1 The speaker's intentional action to get the agent's help -- 2.2 The rationality of politeness interpretation -- 2.3 Common feature in morau, passive, and causative -- 3. Present study and postulated model -- 3.1 Testing the validity of the model: Quantitative analysis -- 3.2 Testing the validity of the model: Qualitative analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Other source books -- Grammar books -- Appendix -- Part II Phonology as human behavior -- Phonology as human behavior from an evolutionary point of view -- 1. The theory: Phonology as human behavior (PHB) -- 1.1 The four orientations underlying the theory of PHB -- 1.2 Viewing phonetics/phonology as human behavior -- 1.3 The fundamental analytic position of PHB -- 2. Quantitative results and principles obtained from the theory -- 2.1 Initial consonant clusters across languages -- 3. Developmental and clinical phonology: Natural phonology versus PHB.

4. PHB and lexical and grammatical systems: The iconic connection between signal and meaning -- 4.1 PHB: From phonology to the lexicon -- 5. PHB and morphology -- 5.1 Inflectional phonology in English -- 6. PHB and evolutionary phonology -- 7. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Phonology as human behavior -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental design -- 2.1 Corpus -- 3. Procedure -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Declarative sentences -- 4.2 Wh-questions -- 4.3 Exclamatory sentences -- 5. Analysis of the data according to the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB) -- 6. Prosody and the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior -- 6.1 The components of prosody and the theory of PHB -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Phonology as human behavior -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The speech of the hearing impaired -- 3. Phonology as human behavior (PHB) -- 4. PHB and hearing - impaired speech -- 5. The study -- 5.1 Study participants -- 5.2 Methods -- 5.3 Results -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Phonology as human behavior -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- A phonological analysis of the lexicon of a literary work -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The distribution of monosyllabic, bisyllabic and polysyllabic words -- 3. Additional articulators in word-initial position -- 4. Distribution of phonemes of constriction in word-initial position with reference to active articulators -- 5. The distribution of the explosive mobile phonemes -- 6. The distribution of the consonant clusters [R+Consonant] or [Consonant +R] and [Vowel+R+Vowel] or [R+Vowel] -- 7. Conclusions -- Appendix 1 -- Lexicon of the Natural -- Appendix 2 -- Lexicon of the Supernatural -- Appendix 3 -- Lexicon of both the Natural and the Supernatural -- References -- Corpus -- Name index -- Subject index.