Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Overview
Part One. Words and Their Dynamism in the Expression of Meaning
I. Two Levels of Meaning
II. The Salience of Words and Our Adventurousness in Using Them
III. Sentences, Sense, and the Objects of Linguistic Science
IV. The Indivisibility of the Human Capacity for Language
V. Scientific Method and the Significance of Mathematics for Linguistics
Part Two. The Shape of the Psychology Required for Explaining the Learning and Use of Language
VI. Human and Animal Organisms as Systems Dynamically Geared to the Environment
VII. Extending the Dynamic and Environment-Geared Model of Human Functioning to the Psychology of Language
VIII. Understanding as Essential to Explaining Speech: Resisting the Drag Towards Physicalism
Part Three. Rewriting the Philosophy of Grammar and Restoring Unity to the Theory of Language
IX. Explaining the Semantic Unity of the Sentence: The Shared Roots of the Topic/Comment, Subject/Predicate, and Noun/Verb Distinctions
X. The Gulf between Saying and Naming, the Verbal and the Nominal: "Force"-Potential as Integral to "Sense"
XI. The Notion of Subject and the Functional Organization of the Clause
XII. Marrying Philosophy and Grammar in Distinguishing Types of Noun Expression
XIII. Varied Systems of Grammaticalization—Reviewing the Phenomena
XIV. The Verb Gives Sentences Their Dynamic Character and Shapes Their Syntactic Structure
XV. The Distorted Treatment of Phrase Theory in Modern Formal Grammar
General Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index