Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: The promise of modern-day structuralism -- 1. Seeking the correlates of meaning in language -- 2. Sign relations as organic properties of mind -- 3. Language as a self-organizing system -- 4. Applying the sign principle to grammatical meaning -- 5. Case relations as a product of grammatical selection -- 6. Extending the sign principle to syntax -- 7. The potential of sign theory in the domain of lexical meaning -- 8. The feature hierarchy that defines human conceptual space -- 9. Neurological evidence for the evolution of higher-order consciousness -- 10. The position of structuralism in the modern era -- Epilogue: The wisdom of the primal mind -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index