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Unity and Diversity of Languages
Editor
Piet van Sterkenburg | University of Leiden, The Netherlands and Free University of Brussels, Belgium
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.
[Not in series, 141] 2008. xii, 232 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 September 2008
Published online on 19 September 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–xii
- Plenary sessions
- Sign languages East and WestSusan D. Fisher | pp. 3–15
- Lifting the veil: Uncovering language originJean Aitchison | pp. 17–27
- Pragmatics and the lexiconLaurence R. Horn | pp. 29–41
- Syntactic constraintsJane Grimshaw | pp. 43–57
- Aspects of the neural representation of spoken languageGrzegorz Dogil | pp. 59–72
- From concepts to meaning: The role of lexical knowledgeJames Pustejovsky | pp. 73–84
- Language rights, human development and linguistic diversity in a globalizing worldSuzanne Romaine | pp. 85–96
- Formal semantics for interpreting temporal annotationKiyong Lee | pp. 97–108
- Parallel sessions
- Words, mind and brainGary Libben | pp. 111–121
- Information structure: Notional distinctions, ways of expressionCaroline Féry and Manfred Krifka | pp. 123–135
- Language policy: The first half-centuryBernard Spolsky | pp. 137–153
- Intercultural pragmatics, language and societyShoshana Blum-Kulka, Menahem Blondheim, Juliane House, Gabriele Kasper and Johannes Wagner | pp. 155–173
- Historical linguistics in 2008: The state of the artBrian D. Joseph | pp. 175–187
- Lexical semanticsSebastian Löbner | pp. 189–200
- (Tense), aspect, mood and modality – an imperfect 2008 state of the art reportJohan van der Auwera and Hana Filip | pp. 201–214
- Syntax: The state of the artFarrell Ackerman and James P. Blevins | pp. 215–229
- Index of terms | pp. 231–232
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