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I. The Aim and Structure of the Semiotic Theory of Language1. A SemioticDefinition of Language; 2. The Principle of Semiotic Relevance and Homonymy;3. Saussure's Notion of the Sign; 4. Linguistics as a Part of Semiotics; 5.The Goals of Linguistic Theory and the Semiotic Basis of Abstraction; 6.Synchronic Linguistics and Diachronic Linguistics; 7. Language Variation; 8.The Semiotic versus Generativist Notion of LanguageII. Phonology1. ThePhoeneme and Distinctive Features; 2. Physical and Functional Segmentation ofthe Speech Flow; 3. Further Problems of Functional Identity; 4. DistinctiveFeatures and Experimental Phonetics; 5. Phonological Antinomies; 6. SomeMisconceptions about the Phonological Antinomies; 7. Remarks on Bohr'sComplementarity Principle and Dialectics; 8. An Illustration: How theFunctional View of Speech Sounds Gave Birth to One of the GreatestDiscoveries in the History of Linguistics; 9. Alternative Theories of thePhoneme and the Distinctive Features; 10. Phonological Syntagmatics; 11. OnGenerative PhonologyIII. Genotype Grammar1. Two Levels of Grammar: GenotypeGrammar and Phenotype Grammar; 2. The Basic Notions of Genotype Grammar; 3.Constituency; 4. Dependency; 5. Constituency and Dependency as ComplementaryNotions; 6. The Structure of the Sentence; 7. Valence and Voice; 8. TheTypology of Sentence Constructions; 9. The Paradox of Ergativity andFunctional Superposition; 10. Some Implications of the Integrated Theory ofErgativity for Linguistic Typology; 11. An Informal Theory of Passivization;12. Alternative Theories of Passivization; 13. The Formalism of ApplicativeGrammar; 14. A Comparison of Applicative Grammar and Montague Grammar; 15. AComparison of Applicative Grammar and Generative-Transformational Grammar;16. A Comparison of Applicative Grammar and Relational Grammar; 17. AComparison of Applicative Grammar and the Lexical-Functional Grammar ofBresnan; 18. The Place of Applicative Grammar among Other Semiotic SystemsIV.Phenotype Grammar1. The Task of Phenotype Grammar; 2. The Word; 3. TheStructure of the Word and Morphological Formatives; 4. Agglutination andFusion; 5. Syntagmatic Formatives; 6. Concord and Government; 7. LinguisticCategories; 8. The Category of CaseV. Linguistic Methodology1. Empirical andConceptual Problems in Linguistics; 2. The Analytical-Deductive Method andImaginary Experiments; 3. The Special Role of Linguistic Anomalies; 4. TheComplementarity Principle and the Centaur Concepts; 5. Static and DynamicMeta-languages; 6. The Role of Anologies in the Semiotic Theory of Language;7. The Use and Abuse of Mathematical Formalism; 8. The Notion of SemioticReality