Editor: Piet van Sterkenburg, Institute for Dutch Lexicology, Leiden
Hardback: ISBN: 1588115372 Pages: viii, 367 pp. Price: U.S. $ 192.00 Comment:
Includes CD-ROM
Hardback: ISBN: 9027232237 Pages: viii, 367 pp. Price: Europe EURO 160.00
Comment: Includes CD-ROM
Abstract:
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.
Table of contents
Preface vii
Evidentiality: Problems and challenges
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 1
Towards a less 'syntactic' morphology and a more 'morphological' syntax
Stephen R. Anderson 31
Linguistic universals and particular
Emmon Bach 47
Language planning and language policies: Issues and prospects
Ayo Bamgbose 61
Computational lexicons and corpora: Complementary components in human
language technology
Nicoletta Calzolari 89
Historical linguistics: The state of the art
Lyle Campbell 109
Coherent fieldwork
Daniel L. Everett 141
State of the art in Computational Linguistics
Giacomo Ferrari 163
State-of-the-art paper: Lexicology and lexicography: Milestones in
metalexicography
Rufus Gouws 187
Pragmatics: State of the art
Robert M. Harnish 207
Phonological dialectics: A short history of generative phonology
Harry van der Hulst 217
Types of languages and the simple pattern of the core of language
Petr Sgall 243
Attempt at the revival of Warrungu (Australia): Its cultural and scientific
significance
Tasaku Tsunoda 267
The future of creolistics
Kees Versteegh 305
How the study of endangered languages will revolutionize linguistics
Douglas Whalen 321
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