Ⅰ. Introduction Ⅱ. Iconic Aspects of Language 1. Phonetic and Phonological Level 2. Morphological Level 3. Syntactic Level 4. Semantic/Utterance Level Ⅲ. Iconic Relations between Linguistic/Structural Distance and Conceptual/Semantic Distance 1. Negation 2. The Ordering of Adjuncts 3. The Ordering of Complements and Adjuncts Ⅳ. Iconic Representation of English Sentence Structures in Generative Syntax Ⅴ. Conclusion References