Linguistics today : facing a greater challenge / edited by Piet van Sterkenburg.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Congress of Linguists, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Sterkenburg, P. G. J. van.

Conference Name:

International Congress of Linguists (17th : 2003 : Prague, Czech Republic)

International Congress of Linguists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Philology.

Physical Description:

viii, 367 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003 in Prague to focus on four major topics which play an important role in today's linguistic debate: 1. Typology, 2. Endangered Languages, 3. Methodology and Linguistics (including fieldwork) and 4. Language and the mind. Leading experts have introduced the four themes in their plenary lectures in the course of the congress, which served as a basis for the articles presented in the current volume. This book should be a welcome tool for all linguists wishing to find their way quickly in current developments. A CD-Rom containing the full proceedings of the Prague Congress is included.

Contents:

Linguistics Today - Facing a Greater Challenge

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Preface

Evidentiality

Notes

References

Towards a less 'syntactic' morphology and a more 'morphological' syntax

Linguistic universals and particulars

Language planning and language policies

Computational lexicons and corpora

Historical linguistics

Coherent fieldwork

State of the art in Computational Linguistics

State-of-the-art paper: Lexicology and lexicography

Pragmatics

Phonological dialectics

Acknowledgements

Types of languages and the simple pattern of the core of language

Acknowledgments

Attempt at the revival of Warrungu (Australia)

The future of creolistics

How the study of endangered languages will revolutionize linguistics

Index.

Notes:

Lectures from the plenary and parallel sessions of a congress in July, 2003, organized by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612254352

9781423766445

142376644X

9789027295149

902729514X

9781282254350

1282254359

OCLC:

70773164