• Preface
• Generalized NP-a inversion: hallmark of English / Joseph Emonds
• Pragmatic formatives / Bruce Fraser
• Imposed versus inherent feature specifications, and other multiple feature markings / Arnold M. Zwicky.

• 1. Why Whitehead?--
• 2. A Whiteheadian approach to natural dialogue--
• 3. The language system--
• 4. The content side of language--
• 5. Language processing and the mind/brain--
• 6. Understanding written texts--
• 7. The historical transmission of language--
• 8. Language as organism or eternal object--
• 9. Whitehead and linguistic metatheory--
• 10. Appendix 1--
• 11. Appendix 2--
• 12. Notes--
• 13. References--
• 14. Subject Index.
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What on earth, one might ask, has the complex - and sometimes obscure - philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to do with the situation facing contemporary linguistics? He wrote, after all, rather little that was specifically about language. The whole "raison d'etre" of this work is to show that Whitehead's "philosophy of organism" has a good deal to offer that is relevant to cognitive science in general and to contemporary linguistics on particular. The purpose of the work is to apply Whitehead's ideas - interpreted in a certain light - to problems concerning the nature of the "content" of language, problems which all schools of linguistic thought face as ideas and approaches flourish within the cognitive sciences.
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The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead's philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of language as the `systematization of expression', and relates meaning to feeling (in the broadest sense). The Whiteheadian perspective allows a synthesis of the psychological and the social approaches to language that does not fall into one or another fashionable form of reductionism. The volume represents a first application of Whitehead's thinking to a broad range of linguistic phenomena, ranging from speech act theory to the production and comprehension of texts, from language acquisition to historical change and the evolution of language. It is argued that Whitehead's holistic philosophy is uniquely suited to the view of language as an emergent phenomenon - regardless of whether one's approach to cognition is via the `nativist' or the `functionalist' route.
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• Preface
• Chapter 1: What Makes Us Human
• Chapter 2: How Sentences Work
• Chapter 3: Words, Meaning and Thought
• Chapter 4: Language and Social Life
• Chapter 5: Machines That Understand Us Conclusion Notes on Further Reading.
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Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many ways in which linguistics, as the scientific study of language, matters. With its close relationships to psychology, education, philosophy, and computer science, the subject has a compelling human story to tell about the ways in which different societies see and describe the world, and its far-reaching applications range from law to medicine and from developmental psychology to artificial intelligence. Introducing Polity's Why It Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.
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The Meaning of Language illustrates the diversity of approaches in linguistics. The volume revolves around two main chapters authored by two internationally acknowledged Scandinavian scholars, Hans Basboll and Stig Eliasson. Basboll's contribution is the most detailed and coherent English-language presentation of the pioneering Danish 18th century linguist Jens Pedersen Hoysgaard and his work, and Eliasson explores the intricacy of the issue of whether morphology can be borrowed between languages and the mechanisms of actual borrowings. The other contributions illustrate which topics may be taken up by language scholars today, from metaphor, regional phonology, morphology and syntax, language learning, discourse analysis, intensifier semantics, and Indo-European, to the interface between language and logic. The approaches invoke a wide spectrum of theoretical models and assumptions.
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• Présentation du volume
• Bibliographie de Danièle Van de Velde
• Trois linguistes allemands du XIXe siècle épris de philosophie : Reisig, Steinthal et Schleicher
• Le nom et ses alentours
• L'opposition Nom comptable / Nom massif ou le paradoxe de la "discontinuité non dénombrable"
• De l'unité à l'universel: perspectives diachroniques
• Zéro et les déterminants négatifi
• Sur les emplois enclosifs de pur et de simple
• Autrui/le prochain: esquisse de comparaison
• On the Ontology of 'Cases'
• Contre l'analyse racine des propositions relatives non-introduites en anglais
• L'existence et ses détours
• La méronymie revisitée : pertinence linguistique et limites
• A propos de l'expression de l'existence et de la possession en arabe standard moderne
• Thetic and categorical judgments inside the weather domain
• Dans: sens, déplacements de sens, qualités et affects
• Le rôle des métaphores spatiales dans l'acceptabilité des résultatives prépositionnelles en anglais
• Temps, Aspect et leurs méandres
• L'expression prépositionnelle de la simultanéité au 20e siècle
• Patrons de nominalisation et aspect grammatical
• La fortuité des événements nominaux
• Les faits, la modalité épistémique et le parfait existentiel
• On the Temporal Function of the Instrument Phrase
• Les structures de la douleur : sur le marquage de l'expérienceur dans les langues romanes
• "Ce qu'il faut mettre dans le dictionnaire".

"Ce volume, en hommage à Danièle Van de Velde, comprend des articles rédigés par des chercheurs linguistes qui ont tous partagé avec elle la passion de travailler sur les mêmes objets, en adoptant des approches diverses. Sont abordées, de façon originale, des questions touchant à des problématiques chères à Danièle Van de Velde, comme la sémantique et la syntaxe du nom et du groupe nominal, la détermination, l'ontologie des propositions, les notions d'événement et de fait. Apparaissent également en filigrane deux volets supplémentaires, l'un comparatif, l'autre lexicographique, qui témoignent de l'ouverture scientifique de celle "qui a été une des premières à parcourir, de la matière jusqu'à l'abstraction, le spectre nominal" (Georges Kleiber). L'ensemble du volume, comme les travaux de Danièle Van de Velde, laisse émerger l'articulation entre plusieurs champs disciplinaires: sémantique lexicale, syntaxe, interprétation et philosophie du langage."--Page 4 of cover.

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Language acquisition
• Psycholinguistics
• Language variation
• Language and culture
• Language and computers.

This monograph is intended as a reference book on Detachment Constructions (DECs) in the Information Structuring of oral and spoken languages. Focusing on DECs in a textual perspective, the book is an innovative contribution to the knowledge of oral and spoken languages, some of them widespread (Indo-European), others less taught (Finno-Ugric).
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