
Unity and Diversity of Languages
Piet van Sterkenburg(Editor)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 3. July 2008
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-90-272-3248-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Permanent International Committee of Linguists (Comite International Permanent des Linguistes, CIPL) has organized the 18th Congress of Linguists in Seoul (July 21-26, 2008), in close collaboration with the Linguistic Society of Korea. In this book one finds the invited talks which address hot topics in various subdisciplines presented by outstanding and internationally well known experts. In addition, the state-of-the-art papers provide an overview of the most important research areas of contemporary linguistics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3248-9 (9789027232489)
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Unity and Diversity of Languages
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University of Leiden, The Netherlands and Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Content
1. Preface; 2. Plenary sessions; 3. Sign languages East and West (by Fisher, Susan D.); 4. Lifting the veil: Uncovering language origin (by Aitchison, Jean); 5. Pragmatics and the lexicon (by Horn, Laurence R.); 6. Syntactic constraints (by Grimshaw, Jane); 7. Aspects of the neural representation of spoken language (by Dogil, Grzegorz); 8. From concepts to meaning: The role of lexical knowledge (by Pustejovsky, James); 9. Language rights, human development and linguistic diversity in a globalizing world (by Romaine, Suzanne); 10. Formal semantics for interpreting temporal annotation (by Lee, Kiyong); 11. Parallel sessions; 12. Words, mind and brain (by Libben, Gary); 13. Information structure: Notional distinctions, ways of expression (by Fery, Caroline); 14. Language policy: The first half-century (by Spolsky, Bernard); 15. Intercultural pragmatics, language and society (by Blum-Kulka, Shoshana); 16. Historical linguistics in 2008: The state of the art (by Joseph, Brian D.); 17. Lexical semantics (by Lobner, Sebastian); 18. (Tense), aspect, mood and modality - an imperfect 2008 state of the art report (by Auwera, Johan van der); 19. Syntax: The state of the art (by Ackerman, Farrell); 20. Index of terms