Language Structure and Environment

1. Chapter 1. The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure: An overview (by De Busser, Rik); 2. Grammar and culture; 3. Chapter 2. On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure (by LaPolla, Randy J.); 4. Chapter 3. The body, the universe, society and language: Germanic in the grip of the unknown (by Burridge, Kate); 5. Chapter 4. When culture grammaticalizes: The pronominal system of Onya Darat (by Tadmor, Uri); 6. Chapter 5. The cultural bases of linguistic form: The development of Nanti quotative evidentials (by Michael, Lev); 7. Grammar and society; 8. Chapter 6. Societies of intimates and linguistic complexity (by Trudgill, Peter); 9. Chapter 7. On the relation between linguistic and social factors in migrant language contact (by Clyne, Michael); 10. Grammar and geography; 11. Chapter 8. Topography in language: Absolute Frame of Reference and the Topographic Correspondence Hypothesis (by Palmer, Bill); 12. Chapter 9. Walk around the clock: The shaping of a (counter-)clockwise distinction in Siar directionals (by Frowein, Friedel Martin); 13. Chapter 10. Types of spread zones: Open and closed, horizontal and vertical (by Nichols, Johanna); 14. Grammar and evolution; 15. Chapter 11. The role of adaptation in understanding linguistic diversity (by Lupyan, Gary); 16. Grammar and the field of linguistics; 17. Chapter 12. On becoming an object of study: Legitimization in the discipline of Linguistics (by Easton, Catherine L.); 18. Subjects and Languages Index; 19. Author Index