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Chapter 12 begins with Matthiessen’s personal encounters with neurolinguistics, neuroscience, and related research fields from 1970s to 1990s. This chapter then approaches certain aspects of neurosemiotics informed by systemic functional linguistics, including locating the potential phenomenal realms of study of neurosemiotics in terms of an ordered typology of systems, identifying key properties of semiotic systems such as all strata of language in context, moving from internal strata to interface strata, and further concentrating on semantics as an interface stratum, on especially ideational semantics. This chapter goes into details about neurosemiotics informed by systemic functional linguistics, which help prepare scholars to develop “biologically implementable” linguistic accounts for neuroscience.