Full Description
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 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Que Pensez-vous de l'Adaption d'une Langue Internationale?
Otto Jespersen (2nd Congress, Geneva, 1931)
2. La Structure Morphologique (Types de Système)
Louis Hjelmslev (5th Congress, Brussels, 1939)
3. Relative Frequency and Dynamic Equilibrium in Phonology and Morphology
George Kingsley Zipf (6th Congress, Paris, 1948)
4. Speech Synthesis as a Research Technique
Pierre Delattre, Franklin S. Cooper, Alvin M. Lieberman and
Louis J. Gerstman (7th Congress, London, 1952)
5. Les « Laryngales » Indo-européennes
Andre Martinet (8th Congress, Oslo, 1957)
6. Research Frontiers in Bilingualism Studies
Uriel Weinreich (8th Congress, Oslo, 1957)
7. The Logical Basis of Linguistic Theory
Noam Chomsky (9th Congress, Cambridge, Mass, 1962)
8. On the Methods of Internal Reconstruction
Jerzy Kuryłowicz (9th Congress, Cambridge, Mass, 1962)
9. Linguistics in Its Relations to Other Sciences
Roman Jakobson (10th Congress, Bucharest, 1967)
10. Numeral Classifijiers and Substantival Number: Problems in the Genesis of a Linguistic Type
Joseph Greenberg (11th Congress, Bologna-Florence, 1972)
11. On the Use of the Present to Explain the Past
William Labov (11th Congress, Bologna-Florence, 1972)
12. Basic Problems of Semantics
John Lyons (12th Congress, Vienna, 1977)
13. Some Basic Principles of Functional Grammar
Simon C. Dik (13th Congress, Tokyo, 1982)
14. Wilhelm von Humboldt's Notion of Linguistic Creativity
Robert H. Robins (14th Congress, Berlin, 1987)
15. Holistic versus Partial Typologies
Bernard Comrie (14th Congress, Berlin, 1987)
16. On the Human Value of Local Language
Ken Hale (15th Congress, Quebec, 1992)
17. Grandeur et Misère de la Typologie
Gilbert Lazard (16st Congress, Paris, 1997)
18. Linguistic Universals and Particulars
Emmon Bach (17st Congress, Prague, 2003)
19. Aspects of the Neural Representation of Spoken Language
Grzegorz Dogil (18st Congress, Seoul, 2008)
