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Unity and diversity of languages / edited by Piet van Sterkenburg.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics--Congresses.
- Linguistics.
- Language and languages--Congresses.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 232 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Plenary sessions
- Sign languages East and West
- Lifting the veil: Uncovering language origin
- Pragmatics and the lexicon
- Syntactic constraints
- Aspects of the neural representation of spoken language
- From concepts to meaning: The role of lexical knowledge
- Language rights, human development and linguistic diversity in a globalizing world
- Formal semantics for interpreting temporal annotation
- Parallel sessions
- Words, mind and brain
- Information structure: Notional distinctions, ways of expression
- Language policy: The first half-century
- Intercultural pragmatics, language and society
- Historical linguistics in 2008: The state of the art
- Lexical semantics
- (Tense), aspect, mood and modality – an imperfect 2008 state of the art report
- Syntax: The state of the art
- Index of terms
- Notes:
- Proceedings of the 18th Congress of Linguists in Seoul (July 21-26, 2008), organized by the Permanent International Committee of Linguistics (Comite International Permanent des Linguistes, CIPL) in close collaboration with the Linguistic Society of Korea.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612105746
- 9781282105744
- 1282105744
- 9789027290090
- 9027290091
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