Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) Lockwood, David G.

Ex Library book and has stickers or markings as such. No writing or markings other then from the library, All pages intact and clean, shows minor signs of wear from use. Great reading copy, Save money and recycle books! Shipped with care in a bubble mailer. --- 656 pages. A festschrift for Sydney M. Lamb edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter Howard Fries and James E. Copeland, made up of 36 essays. It opens with an introduction, a biographical sketch of Lamb and a list of his published writings. Part I covers the structure of language. It starts with cognitive and stratificational theory: valence and phraseology, a neural network model of language production, neurological evidence for an autonomous lexicon, and the Welsh sentence particle. Related functional frameworks follow, among them chart parsing, textlinguistics, motion schemata and consonant iconicity. The part ends with descriptive studies of the English noun phrase, conversation and translation, plus an essay that places Lamb's conceptual level within grammar. Part II turns to the history of language and linguistics, with general studies of language change and papers on lexicon and culture, including one on the poetics of Kawaiisu narrative.…