Following the retirement of Cargill G Knott, a new Chair, the Tait Chair ofNaturalPhilosophy, had been founded to cover the field of Theoretical Physics
(semiotics))、行動素模型(英语:actantial model)、敘述性計畫(narrative program),以及自然世界符號學(semiotics of the natural world)。他對於立陶宛神话以及原始印歐宗教的研究對於文學語意評論(英语:semiotic literary criticism)具有重要影響。