Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Linguists, Cambridge, Mass. , August 27-31 1962.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lunt, Horace G.

Series:

Janua Linguarum. Series Maior

Janua Linguarum. Series Maior ; v.12

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 1964.

Summary:

The book is a collection of proceedings from the Ninth International Congress of Linguists held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1962. It covers a broad array of topics in linguistics, from mathematical linguistics, phonetics and phonemics, and linguistic geography to theory of syntax and language teaching. The book includes discussions and research papers presented at the congress by various scholars, providing a comprehensive overview of linguistic trends and research at the time. The book is intended for academic audience, particularly those interested in linguistics and language studies. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

PREFACE

PROGRAM AND TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Monday, August 27, 1962 (M.I.T.)

9 . 0 0 a . m . OPENING SESSION

President of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Welcoming Remarks

President of The Ninth International Congress of Linguists, Introductory Remarks

Secretary General of The Ninth International Congress, Quelques mots d'accueil

10.15 a . m . PLENARY SESSION

On the Methods of Internal Reconstruction

Discussion

SECTION A: MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS

A Statistical Study of English Syntax

Measures of Linguistic Divergence

Mathematics of Genealogical Relationships Between Languages

Mathematical Linguistics - A Trend in Name or in Fact?

SECTION B: PHONETICS AND PHONEMICS

Aspects et fonctions linguistiques des variations mélodiques dans la chaîne parlée

Minimal Systems, Potential Distinctions, and Primitive Structures

Stress, Juncture, and Syllabification in Phonemic Description

Pattern Fringe and the Evaluation of Phonological Analyses

Pleniphonetic Transcription in Phonetic Analysis

SECTION C: LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY

Dialect Borders and Linguistic Systems

Structure and Typology of Dialectal Differentiation

Remarques sur quelques isoglosses dialectales

Interrelation between Regional and Social Dialects

9 . 0 0 a . m . GROUP MEETINGS

1. Linguistic Theory

On Systems of Grammatical Structure: Studies in New Guinea and South America

Concerning the Logical Basis of Linguistic Theory

2. Theory of Syntax, I

On the Fundamentals of Sentence Structure

Fundamentals of Syntax

Is There an Interlingual Element in Syntax?.

3. Chinese, I

Some Syntactic Rules for Mandarin.

Bipartite Division of Syllables in Chinese Phonology

4. Phonological Descriptions of Languages, I

The Significance of Accentuation in English Words

The Nasal Vowel Phonemes of French: a Case History

Spanish L.L., y and rr in Buenos Aires and Corrientes

5. Language Teaching

English Syntax Problems of Filipinos and the Principles of Linguistic Relativity

Learning Problems involving Italian [s], [z] and English /s/, /z/

6. Theory of Morphology

On the Use of Zero in Morphemics

7. Glottochronology

The Fallacy of a Universal List of Basic Vocabulary

Glottochronology with Retention-rate Inhomogeneity

On the Validity of Comparative Lexicostatistics

8. Dialects and Dialectology

Le renouvellement des méthodes en linguistique géographique

New Methods to Interpret Linguistic Maps

9. Varia, I

La teoria Crociana e la linguistica strutturale

Sign, Meaning, Society

On Some Traces of the Unknown Language- Substratum in the Northern Uralic Languages

Les niveaux de l'analyse linguistique

2 . 1 5 p . m . SECTION MEETINGS

SECTION A: STYLISTICS

The Description of a Poem

The Linguistic Study of Literary Texts

Poetry and Grammaticalness

The Stylistic Function

Styles as Dialects

SECTION B: MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONEMICS

Compounding as a Phonological Process

Grammatical Categories and Their Phonetic Exponents

Mohawk Prefix Generation

Theory and Practice in Morpheme Identification

SECTION C: LANGUAGES IN CONTACT

Some Aspects of Bilingualism among Cultured People in Catalonia

Discussion.

Stylistic Aspects of Borrowing: a Stylistic and Comparative View of American Elements in Modern German, and British English

The Proliferation and Extension of Bantu Phonemic Systems influenced by Bushman and Hottentot

Transfert du système phonologique de Blaesheim sur une autre langue, le français

Wednesday, August 29, 1962 (at Harvard)

Thursday, August 30,1962 (at M.I.T.)

Friday, August 31, 1962 (at Harvard)

LIST OF MEMBERS

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

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ISBN:

9783112317419

3112317416