The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language will take place at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) on 18-20 October, 2008.
CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition.
The theme of CSDL 9 […]
Wasow, T. & Arnold, J.
Intuitions in Linguistic Argumentation.
Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, 2005, 1481-1496.
Generative grammarians have relied on introspective intuitions of well-formedness as their primary source of data. The overreliance on this one type of data and the unsystematic manner in which they are collected cast doubt on the empirical basis of a great […]
Linguistic Mystic has a very good IPA character entry mechanism for MacOS only.
Slobin, Dan I
Biology and Knowledge, J Langer, S. T. Parker, C. Milbrath (2004)
Dan Slobin examines (and refutes) the hypothesis that child language serves as a good parallel to the evolution of language in proto-hominids. A very well written paper that makes frequent comparisons to the classical version of the recapitulationist argument.
Slobin, Dan I.
Language in Mind: Advances in the study of language and thought (pp. 157-192)
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Brandt, Line
October, 2000
This piece was a chapter of Brandt’s Thesis at Roskilde University. It covers expansions of and ‘philosophical differences’ with the Mental Spaces theory as defined by Fauconnier et al. Most particularly, she expands the model to deal with longer narratives.
She has particular and frequently voiced criticism for what she considers the failures of […]