Eight Decades of General Linguistics: The History of CIPL and Its Role in the History of Linguistics

ISBN-13: 9789004257191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 518 str.

Ferenc Kiefer;Piet van Sterkenburg

Opis

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, Andre Martinet, Uriel Weinreich, Noam Chomsky and many other linguists cannot be over-estimated. The majority of the papers address a radically new topic, each of which became one of the central issues in subsequent linguistic research. In addition to their empirical findings and/or the theoretical innovations presented in their papers, each contribution is still interesting and pivotal to the development of contemporary linguistics.