I-XII -- Introduction: On linguistic sign theory -- Part I Issues of theory and methodology -- Theory -- Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory -- Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses -- Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis -- The purpose of a grammatical analysis -- When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens -- Part II Deixis -- Deixis from a cognitive point of view -- Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function -- Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives -- Part III Lexical meaning -- Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited -- Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon -- Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse -- The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish -- Conversational focus -- Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness -- Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish -- Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences -- Author index -- Subject index