THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS AND GRAMMATICAL DESCRIPTION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Editor's Preface -- Table of contents -- Biographical Sketch of Hans-Heinrich Lieb -- Hans-Heinrich Lieb: List of Publications 1964-1995 -- A Formal Approach to a General Theory of Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Primitive and some defined terms -- Language -- Lect -- Linguators -- Texts -- Lingual and lectal knowledge -- Lectosystematic basis of language -- Systematic basis of a text -- Transsystematization -- Transtextization -- Language and lect use (linguation and lectation) -- Transudation -- Typal and sortai diversity of the language domain -- 3. Axiomatics -- 4. Language communication -- 5. Lingual and lectal communities -- 6. Variability and stability of language -- 7 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Understanding Understanding -- 1. The principle of concept formation -- 2. The principle of understanding -- References -- Non-reducible Grammatical Relations without Semantic Content -- 1. The set of classical grammatical relations -- 1.1 Reducibility -- 1.2 Semantic content -- 1.3 Justifying the GR-C-Postulate -- 2. The German Prefield-es -- 2.I The problem -- 2.2 The solution -- 3. Other constructions with diff nm-occurrences -- 4 Summary -- References -- Are Linguistic Objects Internal, External, or Both? -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The terms of the discussion -- 2. Radical internalism -- 3. The representational hypothesis -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Some Thoughts on Being Minimal -- 1. Introduction: Descartes versus Socrates -- 2. Rules and lists -- 3. Generalizations - universal and particular - and Schrödinger's cat -- 4. Primitives and derived notions -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Case Morphology and Case System in L1 Acquisition -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Case-theoretic preliminaries.

2. A German child's acquisition of case -- 2.I Data base and general assumptions -- 2.2 Prenominai genitives and early accusatives -- 2.3 On the absence of prepositions and articles -- 2.4 Accusative and dative contexts -- 3. Interpreting Lisa's acquisition of case -- 3.1 On the role of pronominal case forms -- 3.2 The "Prepositional Spurt" and the emergence of datives -- 3.3 Acquiring Dat-Acc- and Dat-verbs -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Explorations in 'Idiolects -- 1. Problem space -- 2. Laudatio: Lieb's solution of the 'idiolect' problem in variation -- 3. Testing theoretical assumptions: On the change of idiolect systems in contemporary German -- 3.1 Remarks on the elicitation design -- 3.2 The problem of 'verb-final' in standard clauses and as property of idiolect systems -- 3.3 Language change in German after the fall of the wall? -- 4. Outlook -- References -- Phonological Word Structures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonological base forms and phonological units -- 3. Phonological constituent structures -- 3.1 Remarks on structure -- 3.2 Simple constituents -- 3.3 Syllables -- 3.4 Feet and phonological words -- 4. Phonological marking structure -- 4.1 Marking structure and paradigm -- 4.2 The internal structure of sounds -- 4.3 Marking structure and word-level stress -- References -- Idiolect and Convention: Incompatible Concepts? -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Thesis: the idiolect approach -- 3. Antithesis: the convention approach -- 4. Synthesis: idiolects with conventional meanings -- References -- Communion or Communication? -- References -- Topic-Focus Articulation - A Matter of Langue or Parole? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. TFA and its means of expression -- 3. Case of negation -- 4. Linguistic meaning vs. cognitive content -- References -- Phraseologie und Metonymik -- Abstract -- 1. Phraseologie und lexikalische Semantik.

2. Zum Begriff der Metonymie -- 3. Verwendungsweisen der Metonymie in nichtphraseologischen Wortfolgen -- 4. Verwendungsweisen der Metonymie in verbalen Phraseologismen -- 5. Metonymische Beziehungen als Beziehungen zwischen Handlungen oder Ereignissen -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Language Universalsand Evolutionary Bottlenecks -- 1. Explaining -- 2. Epigenetic accidents and the role of defaults -- 3. Bottlenecks -- 4. Language as a replicating system -- References -- Speech Intentions, Speech Planning, and the Use of Syntactic Constructions -- Introduction -- 1. Speech intentions -- 1.1 Preliminary remarks -- 1.2 Intentions-in-action -- 1.3 Sound-related form properties and speech intentions -- 2. Speech planning -- 2.1 The place of speech intentions in models of speech planning -- 2.2 The role of metalinguistic knowledge -- 3. The use of syntactic constructions: examples -- 3.1 Syntactic preferences -- 3.2 Discourse functions of syntactic constructions -- 3.3 Stylistic advice -- Conclusions -- References -- English Verbal Idioms of Aural Perception -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Principal methodological assumptions -- 3. The sorted lexicographic meanings of nonintentional "hear" and intentional "listen" -- 4. Two claims -- 4.1 Claim 1 -- 4.2 Claim 2 -- 5. Discussion of data -- 5.1 "Listen"-Ll idioms -- 5.2 "Listen"-L2 idioms -- 5.3 "Listen "-L3 idioms -- 5.4 "Hear "-H2 idioms -- 5.5 Hybrid idioms -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Dictionaries -- Semantics and Grammar: A Relationship of Mutual Foundations? -- 1. Complex of HG-syntax -- 2. Complex of cognitive style -- 3. Complex of H-supervenience -- 4. Complex of analyticity -- 5. Complex of communicative style -- References -- The Problem of 'Adjectives5 in Mandarin Chinese -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Theoretical background -- 2 'Adjectives' as verbs in Mandarin: syntactic arguments.

2.1 Predicative use -- 2.2 Aspect marking -- 2.3 Attributive use -- 3. Possible objections -- 3.1 The use of shi with verbal predicates -- 3.2 Modification by degree adverbs -- 3.3 Ellipsis of de -- 3.4 Reduplication -- 4. 'Adjectives' as proper verbs in Mandarin -- 4.1 Lexical meanings O/GRAD- and NON-GRAD verbs -- 4.2 The function of attributive de -- 4.3 An assumption on part of the word class system of Mandarin Chinese -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Beyond New Structuralism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A critical discussion of Lieb's proposal of New Structuralism -- 3. The linguistic structure claim -- 4. My own position - a Leibnizean position -- 5. Linguisticinterdisciplines? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Wann hat eine Sprache begonnen? -- Abstract -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Zur universalen Dimension der IDENTIFIKATION -- Abstract -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Zum Gang der Forschungen nach UNITYP -- 3. Verschiedene Abgrenzungen des Datenbereichs -- 4. Der Bereich der IDENTIFIKATION, prätheoretisch -- 5. Das Kontinuum der IDENTIFIKATION im Deutschen -- 6. Andere Manifestationen des Kontinuums -- 7. Referentbezogen vs. lexeminhaltsbezogen -- 1. Adpositionalphrasen -- 2. Adjektive zeitstabil, nichtoppositionell -- 3. Genitive -- 4. Adjektive oppositionell, nichtzeitstabil -- 5. Possessivpronomina -- 8. Zur Rekonstruktion des exprimendum bzw. repraesentandum -- 9. Schlußbemerkung -- Literaturverzeichnis -- A Series of Explicata for the Notion of Meaning -- Introduction -- A. MEANING - the linguistic patterning -- B. MEANING or sense = meaningo + reference -- C. MEANING - structured meaning -- D. MEANING - intension (or a corresponding layer in a situation based semantics) -- E. MEANING - extension -- F. MEANING - content of utterance -- G. Some consequences -- References -- Iconicity and Syncretism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syncretism -- 3. Iconicity.

4. Expression-forms -- 5. Hierarchical structure of paradigms -- 6. Hierarchy and syncretism -- 7. Categories of case -- 8. Case syncretism and case exponents -- 9. Gender syncretism and gender exponents -- 10. Categories of gender -- 11. The paradigm DIESER -- 12. Conclusion -- References -- Remarks on Language Theory in the "Decade of the Brain" -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Language, language faculty, and meaning -- 2. Mental representation: model and modelling -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects and Terms.