Title: Unity and diversity of languages /
Authors: Sterkenburg, P. G. J. van.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Linguistics Congresses; Language and languages Congresses
Contents: Sign languages East and West / Susan D. Fisher -- Lifting the veil : uncovering language origin / Jean Aitchison -- Pragmatics and the lexicon / Laurence R. Horn -- Syntactic constraints / Jane Grimshaw -- Aspects of the neural representation of spoken language / Grzegorz Dogil -- From concepts to meaning : the role of lexical knowledge / James Pustejovsky -- Language rights, human development and linguistic diversity in a globalizing world / Suzanne Romaine -- Formal semantics for interpeting temporal annotation / Kiyong Lee -- Words, mind and brain / Gary Libben -- Information structure : notional distinctions, ways of expression / Caroline Féry & Manfred Krifka -- Language policy : the first half-century / Bernard Spolsky -- Intercultural pragmatics, language and society / Shoshana Blum-Kulka [and others] -- Historical linguistics in 2008 : the state of the art / Brian D. Joseph -- Lexical semantics / Sebastian Löbner -- (Tense), aspect, mood and modality : an imperfect 2008 state of the art report / Johan van der Auwera & Hana Filip -- Syntax : the state of the art / Farrell Ackerman & James P. Blevins.