Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Frederick B. Agard, Gerald Kelley, Adam Makkai, and Valerie Becker Makkai -- Preface / F. B. A., G. K., A. M., and V. B. M. -- Chapter I Publications of Charles F. Hockett / C. F. Hockett -- 1. Ideas About Language / Michael A. K. Halliday -- 2. The Study of Syntax: Past, Present, Future / W. Freeman Twaddell -- 3. Levels vs. Configurations, Revisited / D. Robert Ladd -- 4. Powers’s Loop and a Neural Theory of Language / J. Marvin Brown -- 5. On the Principles of Second Generation Code Design / William M. Christie Jr. -- 6. Multiplicity of Patterning in Language / Paul L. Garvin -- 7. The Reduction and Elimination of Redundancy / Ernst Pulgram -- 8. Universal Terms as Waves / Kenneth L. Pike -- 9. Ambiguity Is No Relative Matter or How Do You Treat Your Doubtful Relatives? / James W. Gair -- 10. Time Passes While We Speak / Robert A. Hall Jr. -- 11. The Go -Progressive and Auxiliary-Formation / Dwight Bolinger -- 12. Doublets / Henry M. Hoenigswald -- 13. On Greek Verbs in –τάζω / Eric P. Hamp -- 14. Non-Constituent Connectives / Edward L. Blansitt Jr. -- 15. How Does a Sememe Mean? / Adam Makkai -- 16. Discourse Portmanteaus and the German Satzfeld / James E. Copeland and Philip W. Davis -- 17. Homonymy and the Lexicon / Dennis E. Peacock -- 18. Dimensions, Explanations, and Universals in Phonology / William G. Moulton -- 19. Autonomous Phonology, Phonemic Overlap, and the Red Herring of Invariance / Ralph Vanderslice -- 20. The Multifunctionality of the Speech Sound / Linda R. Waugh -- 21. Consonantal Apophony in English / Roger W. Wescott -- 22. Phonological Domains in the Peking Dialect / Hugh M. Stimson -- 23. Talking about Phonemics: Centralized Diphthongs in a Chicago-Area Idiolect / James Kilbury -- 24. The Mechanisms Underlying Rule Insertion / Rocky V. Miranda -- 25. Nonsegmental Phonology as Functional Dynamic Phonetics / Toby D. Griffen -- 26. On the Formal Analysis of Kinship Terminologies / William R. Merrifield -- 27. Language as Ritual: An Ethological Perspective / Ronald Cosper -- 28. Baudouin de Courtenay as Sociolinguist / D. L. Olmsted and L. A. Timm -- 29. The Shifting Linguistic Frontier in Brittany / Lenora A. Timm -- 30. Language Theory, Human Creativity, and the Future in Applied Linguistics / Robert J. Di Pietro -- 31. The Format of Teaching Grammars / Ashok R. Kelkar -- 32. Sex-indefinite Pronouns: Ambiguous ’ um Experiment / Ann Bodine -- 33. Poetic Structure of a Chinook Text / Dell Hymes -- 34. Outline of the Syntax of Hopi Postpositions / C. F. Voegelin and F. M. Voegelin -- 35. Mexican Indian Languages and Greenberg’s ‘Universals of Grammar…’ / Velma B. Pickett -- 36. What Zuni Is Really Like / Willard Walker -- 37. The Accenting of English Loanwords in Fijian / Albert J. Schütz -- 38. Pronouns in Contact / Stephen Wallace -- 39. The Indonesian Spoken by the Peranakan Chinese of East Java: A Case of Language Mixture / John U. Wolff.

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