This volume is designed to fill two major purposes: to provide in one place, for the scholarly world, a large number of the major articles written by Kenneth L. Pike, many of which originally appeared in rather inaccessible publications, and to mark Professor Pike's sixtieth birthday.PART I: LINGUISTICTaxemes and Immediate Constituents (1943)Grammatical Prerequisites to Phonemic Analysis (1947)Coexistent Phonemic Systems (1949)A Problem in Morphology-Syntax Division (1949)Operational Phonemics in Reference to Linguistic Relativity (1952)Meaning and Hypostasis (1955)Towards a Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior (1956)Language and Life: A Training Device for Translation Theory and Practice (1957)Language as Particle, Wave, and Field (1959)Nucleation (1960)Stimulating and Resisting Change (1961)Dimensions of Grammatical Constructions (1962)Stress Trains in Auca (1964)Beyond the Sentence (1964)On Systems of Grammatical Structure (1964)Hyperphonemes and Non-Systematic Features of Aguaruna Phonemics (1964)Tongue-Root Position in Practical Phonetics (1967)Grammar as Wave (1967)Matrix Permutation as a Heuristic Device in the Analysis of the Bimoba Verb (1968)Pronominal Reference in English Conversation and Discourse — A Group Theoretical Treatment (1969)PART II: RELIGIOUSStrange Dimensions of Truth (1961)...What's on my Mind (a Preview) (1967)The Lord's Voice — and Ours (1967)San Miguel: L'Envoi — 1967 (1967)PART III: POETICFlying Through Fog (1967)Thy Speech Betrayeth Thee (1971)Pike — A Biographical Sketch, by Eunice V.Pike