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Author International Congress of Linguists (17th : 2003 : Prague, Czech Republic)

Title Linguistics today : facing a greater challenge / edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2004]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 367 pages)
Contents Linguistics Today -- Facing a Greater Challenge; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Preface; Evidentiality; Towards a less 'syntactic' morphology and a more 'morphological' syntax; Linguistic universals and particulars; Language planning and language policies; Computational lexicons and corpora; Historical linguistics; Coherent fieldwork; State of the art in Computational Linguistics; State-of-the-art paper: Lexicology and lexicography; Pragmatics; Phonological dialectics; Types of languages and the simple pattern of the core of language; Attempt at the revival of Warrungu (Australia)
Summary 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
Notes Selection of papers presented during the 17th International Congress of Linguists, Prague, July 24-29, 2003
Includes the full proceedings of the congress on CD-ROM
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Linguistics -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Linguistics
Taaltypologie.
Uitstervende talen.
Methodologie.
Taalpsychologie.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Sterkenburg, P. G. J. van.
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