Unity and Diversity of Languages
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2008
XII, 244 pages
978-90-272-9009-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Permanent International Committee of Linguists (Comité 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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Content
- Unity and Diversity of Languages
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Plenary sessions
- Sign languages East and West
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Debunking misconceptions about sign languages
- 3. Sign language and education
- 4. Sign languages are languages
- 5. Why study sign languages?
- 6. Relation of sign language to spoken language linguistics
- 7. Comparisons of sign languages
- 7.1 History
- 7.2 Sign language characteristics
- 7.3 Verb classes
- 7.4 Constituent order
- 7.5 Topicalization
- 7.6 Simultaneity
- 7.7 Interface with written language
- 7.8 Prosodic marking of syntactic forms
- 8. Conclusions
- References
- Lifting the veil
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Basic assumptions
- 3. Some recent steps forward
- 4. The linguistic scenario
- 5. Grammaticalization
- 6. Final comments
- References
- Pragmatics and the lexicon
- 1. Lexical pragmatics: Minding ones's Q's and R's
- 2. R in the lexicon: Narrowing and strengthening
- 3. Two case studies in lexical pragmatics: The clone and the un-word
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Syntactic constraints
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The constraints
- 3. Economy and complementizers
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Aspects of the neural representation of spoken language
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Matured imaging technology
- 3. Some major findings
- 3.1 Prosody
- 3.1.1 Methods, Subjects and materials
- 3.1.2 Procedure and imaging
- 3.1.3 Results
- 3.1.4 Discussion - Prosody processing in the inferior frontal gyrus
- 3.2 The speech network
- 3.3 On arguing that natural speech is special for the human brain
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- From concepts to meaning
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Challenges to strict compositionality
- 3. The building blocks for composition
- 4. Mechanisms of argument selection
- 5. Coercion in different contexts
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowlegements
- References
- Language rights, human development and linguistic diversity in a globalizing world
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Linguistic human rights (LHR) and human rights
- 3. Global distribution of linguistic diversity and language endangerment
- 4. Policy implications of LHR, linguistic diversity and human development
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Formal semantics for interpreting temporal annotation
- 1. Introduction
- 2 TimeML for temporal annotation
- 3. A sketch of the OWL-time ontology
- 4. OWL-Time-based semantics
- 5. Representing and interpreting the past tense in korean
- 5.1 Two forms of the past tense
- 5.2 The present perfective interpretation of the past tense
- 6. Concluding Remarks
- Acknowlegements
- References
- Parallel sessions
- Words, mind, and brain
- 1. Words such as language, mind, and brain
- 2. Words such as languages, mindful, and brainless
- 3. All lexical variables are psychological
- 4. Methodology: The state of the art and the shape of the future
- 5. Individual differences
- References
- Information structure
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is Information structure?
- 3. The notions of information structure
- 4. The expression of information structure
- 4.1 Sentence position
- 4.2 Accents
- 4.3 Morphological markers
- 5. To conclude
- References
- Language Policy
- 1. Birth of the field
- 2. Language planning for linguistic utopia
- 3. The view from Prague
- 4. From planning to policy
- 5. Language policy as linguistic imperialism
- 6. But perhaps it is cultural?
- 7. Models of language policy
- 8. Language politics
- 9. Language policy and management
- 10. Salvaging and regenerating endangered languages
- 11. Language education policy
- Conclusion
- References
- Intercultural pragmatics, language and society
- 1. Globalization of discourse
- 2. International workplace communication
- 3. Main issues in this field
- 4. Outlook
- 5. Historical pragmatics
- 5.1 Historical pragmatics: Distance, depth, and dynamism
- 5.2 Major Themes: The linguistic-pragmatic tension
- 5.3 The methodological quandary of HP
- 5.4 Scope of the field: Languages, eras, contexts
- 6. Interculturality as discursive construction
- References
- Historical Linguistics in 2008
- 1. Introduction
- 2. State of the art: Infrastructural Indicators
- 3. State of the art: Conceptual bases
- 4. State of the art: Old but persistent questions and old but useful methods
- 5. State of the art: New methods
- 6. State of the art: New opportunities
- 7. Conclusion: A key remaining (set of related) question(s)
- References
- Lexical Semantics
- 1. Theoretical orientations
- 2. Methodology
- 3. Major topics
- 3.1 Polysemy
- 3.1.1 Models of polysemy: case studies
- 3.1.2 Polysemy vs. post-lexical meaning variation
- 3.1.3 Global aspects of polysemy
- 3.2 Meaning in context
- 3.2.1 Meaning in the context of word formation
- 3.2.2 Meaning in sentential context
- 3.2.3 Meaning in the context of world knowledge
- 3.3 Models of lexical meaning: Decomposition
- 3.4 Plowing ground
- 3.5 Working with semantic networks
- References
- (Tense,) Aspect, mood and modality - an imperfect 2008 state of the art report
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aspect - formal approaches
- 2.1 Aristotelian categories, grammatical aspect and semantic universals
- 2.2 Theories of aspect
- 2.2.1 Semantics of aspect
- 2.2.2 Syntax of aspect
- 2.3 Aspect and argument selection
- 2.4 The notion of an "event
- 3. Mood and modality - functional approaches
- 4. Envoi
- References
- Syntax
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Syntactic ways of seeing and consequences for interdisciplinary research
- 3. The influence of lesser studies languages on syntactic research
- 4. New methods
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Index of terms
