Language and Reality Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb [Paperback]

Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-worked for publication here. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers are far from well known, some of them having appeared in more obscure venues of publication, and for the most part unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which includes papers offering insight into the man behind this pioneering approach to doing linguistics that might best be summed up as linguistics to the beat of a different drummer. The papers in Part II explore the theoretical origins of Lamb's ideas about language that have often been described as ahead of their time. Part III includes more recent writings outlining work done in Neurocognitive Linguistics. Studies of the interconnectedness of language with other kinds of human experience and with history are presented in Part IV.

Part I. The Road Less Traveled By1. Linguistics to the Beat of a Different Drummer2. On The Aims of Linguistics 3. Mary Haas: Lessons in and out of the Classroom 4. Translation and the Structure of Language Part II. The Structure of Language5. Epilegomena to a Theory of Language 6. Lexicology and Semantics 7. Some Types of Ordering 8. Language as a Network of Relationships 9. Mutations and Relations 10. Descriptive Process 11. Using Language and Knowing How Part III. Neurocognitive Linguistics12. Language as a Real Biological System 13. Neurocognitive Structure in the Interplay of Language and Thought 14. Interpreting Discourse 15. Learning Syntax: A Neurocognitive Approach 16. Dimensions of the Territory of Neurolinguistics 17. Questions of Evidence in Neurocognitive Linguistics 18. On the Perception of Speech Part IV. Language in the Real World19. Linguistic Diversification and Extinction in North America 20. Language and Animals. 21. Long-Range Relationships 22. What is a LanguagelÃc