Worlds behind Words
Essays in honour of Prof. Dr. F.G. Droste on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
F. Steurs (Author), F. Heyvaert (Author),
List of contributors
L. Melis: F. Droste: between language and thought
I. Words shaping worlds. On longuage and meaning, or the things language does to reality
T.A. Sebeok: In what sense is language a “primary modeling system”?
H. Parret: Cognition, the localist hypothesis, and back to Kant
R. Bartsch: Concepts and frames
R.W. Langacker: Absolute construal
O. Leys: Some remarks on spatial prepositional structure
P.A.M. Seuren: Notes on reflexivity
S.C. Dik: Towards a unified cognitive language
R. Hudson: Language, metalanguage and conceptual structure
F. van Eynde: A discourse representation model for the semantic analysis of temporal expressions
S. Geukens: Aspects of the semantics of some types of exclamative sentences
F. Steurs: Some remarks on coordinate structures
L. Goossens: Prototypical and non-prototypical meaning: say revisited
F.J. Heyvaert: Antonymy and convention
D. Geeraerts: On hypertrophic homonymy
II. Worlds shaping words. On grammar and whatever makes in into what it is
E. Vorlat: Lord Monboddo’s theory on the origin and progress of language
H. Schultink: Heads and percolation in Swahili morphology
B. Comrie: Haruai attributes and processing explanation for word order
W. Kuhn: The so-called “relator-nouns” in Vietnamese
W. de Geest: Passive bare infinitival complements in Dutch
R. Collier: On the phonology of Dutch intonation
D. De Bleecker: Coarticulation on the “front” dimension. A computer program
R. Declerck: A principle of word order in specificational sentences
III. Words in the World and things that can happen to them: on topics like machine translation and language policy
G. Geerts: Is “Flemish” different from “Dutch”?
W.W. Dharmowijono: Word adoption in Bahasa Indonesia: a shift in orientation
L.J.M. Bergmans: Dutch as a language for the higher concerns of the mind. G.J.P.J. Bolland and his critics
M.C. van den Toorn: Some remarks on the language of Nazism
S. de Vriendt: The standardization of sign languages in Belgium
A.M. Cornu and M. Delahaye: If foreign language teaching is to be functional, an S.O.S. approach to vocabulary teaching is necessary
W. Daelemans: Automatic hyphenation: linguistics versus engineering
F. Vandamme: The complex dynamic interrelations between logic, linguistics and Artificial Intelligence in the epistemological field
R. Gebruers: Functional grammar: a useful thinking tool for machine translation research?
A Bibliography of the Publications by F.G. Droste
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