Eight decades of general linguistics : : the history of CIPL and its role in the history of linguistics / / edited by Ferenc Kiefer and Piet van Sterkenburg.

Eight Decades of General Linguistics presents the key lectures delivered at the eighteen conferences organized by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists and also a history of the Committee itself. The contributions of outstanding scholars such as Otto Jesperson, Louis Hjelmslev, André Ma...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (525 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ferenc Kiefer and Piet van Sterkenburg
  • Introduction / Ferenc Kiefer and Piet van Sterkenburg
  • 1. Que Pensez-vous de l’Adaption d’une Langue Internationale? / Otto Jespersen
  • 2. La Structure Morphologique (Types de Système) / Louis Hjelmslev
  • 3. Relative Frequency and Dynamic Equilibrium in Phonology and Morphology / George Kingsley Zipf
  • 4. Speech Synthesis as a Research Technique / Pierre Delattre , Franklin S. Cooper , Alvin M. Lieberman and Louis J. Gerstman
  • 5. Les « Laryngales » Indo-européennes / Andre Martinet
  • 6. Research Frontiers in Bilingualism Studies / Uriel Weinreich
  • 7. The Logical Basis of Linguistic Theory / Noam Chomsky
  • 8. On the Methods of Internal Reconstruction / Jerzy Kuryłowicz
  • 9. Linguistics in Its Relations to Other Sciences / Roman Jakobson
  • 10. Numeral Classifiers and Substantival Number: Problems in the Genesis of a Linguistic Type / Joseph Greenberg
  • 11. On the Use of the Present to Explain the Past / William Labov
  • 12. Basic Problems of Semantics / John Lyons
  • 13. Some Basic Principles of Functional Grammar / Simon C. Dik
  • 14. Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Notion of Linguistic Creativity / Robert H. Robins
  • 15. Holistic versus Partial Typologies / Bernard Comrie
  • 16. On the Human Value of Local Language / Ken Hale
  • 17. Grandeur et Misère de la Typologie / Gilbert Lazard
  • 18. Linguistic Universals and Particulars / Emmon Bach
  • 19. Aspects of the Neural Representation of Spoken Language / Grzegorz Dogil.